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    Black-Litterman Model

    A method that blends market-implied returns with your own opinions about which assets will do better, producing more intuitive portfolios than raw mean-variance.

    Developed by Fischer Black and Robert Litterman at Goldman Sachs, this Bayesian approach starts from equilibrium returns implied by the market portfolio, then tilts those returns toward investor views with a confidence weighting. The result avoids the extreme corner allocations that plague pure mean-variance.

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