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title: Strengthening Investment Portfolios through Resilience – A Primer
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4667697/
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updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4667697
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4667697
featured: 2023-12-20
citations: 0
topic: Portfolio & Allocation
---


# Strengthening Investment Portfolios through Resilience – A Primer

The article promotes an adaptive investment strategy that focuses on resilience thinking, active ownership, and moving away from narrow financial models due to fast-paced technological, geopolitical, and environmental changes.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4667697
- Identifier: SSRN 4667697
- Released: 2023-12-18
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 30 (2023-12-20): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2023-12-20/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): 0
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Portfolio & Allocation

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