Our third requirement is portfolio diversification, so fine sector funds like Vanguard Health Care are excluded.
Gold, said the WGC, offers portfolio diversification since it lacks the credit and counterparty risk of other investments.
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So it is hard to say whether Japanese equities simply a portfolio diversification option, or an optimistic vote of confidence?
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Investing in the stocks of companies that produce rare earths: yes, I can see that as a possible portfolio diversification.
To gain that fuller understanding, the adviser and investor must consider more than the typical metrics, such as portfolio diversification or levels of debt.
On the other hand, his honchos say he is redeploying his assets for portfolio diversification and that he remains committed to Clearwire and its future.
They have made functional such techniques as portfolio diversification, hedging, structured finance, and credit scoring, all of which greatly reduce the riskiness of promises to repay.
In both cases, companies begin to experience the cost-saving benefits of employing an array of industry best practices including portfolio diversification, demand forecasting, and procurement automation.
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Investment in bonds as part of portfolio diversification should be done via a mix of sectors matching your income needs, risk tolerance and interest rate outlook.
Pinpointing how many investors are in the ETF as a short-term trade and how many are using the ETF as a portfolio diversification tool is hard to do, Quigg said.
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Petitioner decided to keep her two New York residences, partly upon the recommendation of her investment advisor to retain these properties for investment purposes as part of her portfolio diversification.
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The University of Chicago's Nobel laureate Harry Markowitz developed the concept of optimal portfolio diversification in the 1950s, but long before that investors and other businesspeople had intuitively grasped the idea.
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Consequently, it is not surprising that investors do not understand advanced financial concepts such as differences between stocks and bonds, the role of the stock market, and the value of portfolio diversification.
Now in a new book Malkiel moves on to extol the virtues of global portfolio diversification--in index funds and actively managed funds -- at a time when many investors are licking their wounds from Southeast Asia, Russia and, not so long ago, Latin America.
To be blunt, the cause of distress for many parents is ignorance or perhaps even greed: putting all their 529 assets into equities rather than following traditional portfolio diversification into different asset classes such as bonds, which have performed very well as equities have swooned.
Triple bottom-line investing is consistent with fiduciary responsibilities from a portfolio investment diversification perspective for several reasons.
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The organization maintains that some gold in a portfolio offers a diversification that can help investors at times when tail-risk events hurt other markets.
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Officials are working to making the investing public aware of the diversification and portfolio-protection qualities of gold, as well as its role as an inflation hedge, Toussaint said.
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You hear this all the time from financial advisors: Get diversification in your portfolio, pronto!
Always look for bargains that will add to the diversification of your portfolio.
As part of that effort, they published and widely circulated a study illustrating the benefits of foreign diversification using Modern Portfolio Theory.
Unless you have several hundred thousand dollars to invest, you probably can't buy enough individual stocks to get reasonable diversification in your portfolio.
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What these results also show is the importance of asset allocation and the need for proper diversification with a portfolio oriented towards long-term growth.
But if a person starts with just considering long stocks, bonds, commodities and real estate as being the only portfolio options, then true diversification cannot be achieved.
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You need diversification to protect your portfolio from market shocks, recessions and depressions.
Including GCC interests in your portfolio adds a protective layer of diversification.
Overall, four of the five highest multi-asset-class returns had commodities in the portfolio since commodities had the strongest diversification potential when combined with other asset classes.
Additionally, for growth-oriented investors, fixed-income securities can provide investors with downside protection and diversification within a growth portfolio especially in a highly volatile market where additional, measured, short-term flights to quality are likely.
Just as minimal diversification makes any investment portfolio more risky, a maker of laundry detergent, cosmetics or soft drinks could be flirting with danger when a high percentage of sales are pushed through a single retailer.
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