Tactical Asset Allocation (TAA)
Adjusting a portfolio's mix of broad asset classes over time in response to the market environment, instead of holding fixed weights regardless of conditions.
Tactical asset allocation (TAA) shifts how much a portfolio holds in each asset class as the environment changes, rather than keeping the same proportions through everything. It operates on whole categories — equities, bonds, commodities, cash — and not on the choice between individual companies.
The term covers two practices. In the discretionary form, a person judges when to shift. In the systematic form, the condition and the response are written down in advance and the rules decide. Both are tactical asset allocation, and a fund described as tactical may be either.
Witan Way's strategies are of the second kind: rules-based, documented, and therefore examinable by someone who did not write them.