Public equities often account for 60–80%+ of portfolio drawdown in multi-asset portfolios.
Public-equity fundamental investing often applies:
private-market analysis (+80%)
to
secondary-market mechanics,
while being measured by
continuous mark-to-market accounting.
That structural mismatch is why drawdown concentrates in public equity portfolios—and why decades of increasingly sophisticated analytics have not eliminated it.
Until engagement with sec…



