“…Given a fund, a time horizon and a group of activities competing for the fund, a decision maker must decide how to allocate it to activities for that period of time. According to Mamat et al (2014), a sequential allocation process (one stage at a time) is more convenient since an investor can minimize risk by previously knowing the sequence of investment. The coloured-edge chain graph modelling approach addresses this issue, as nodes represent time stages, colours identify activities (projects, departments, areas, etc.)…”