Investment Planning is all about optimizing portfolio returns in all economic / market conditions with the help of Strategic Asset Allocation and your risk tolerance
This method establishes and adheres to a Base Policy Mix - a proportional combination of assets based on expected rates of return for each asset class.
For example, if stocks have historically returned 20% per year and bonds have returned 8% per year, a mix of 50% stocks and 50% bonds would be expected to return 14% per year.