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title: Asset Allocation and Private Markets: the Need for a Cash Management Strategy
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4815083/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
index: https://www.ml-quant.com/llms.txt
identifier: SSRN 4815083
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4815083
featured: 2024-05-08
citations: 0
topic: Portfolio & Allocation
---


# Asset Allocation and Private Markets: the Need for a Cash Management Strategy

The article highlights the difficulties in allocating assets to private markets due to unique cashflow dynamics and portfolio variations, indicating the need for dynamic cash management strategies in portfolio optimization.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4815083
- Identifier: SSRN 4815083
- Released: 2023-09-20
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 48 (2024-05-08): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-05-08/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): 0
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Portfolio & Allocation

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