After reviewing your statement and focusing your viewpoint, consider taking a closer look at
the actual holdings in your portfolio.
Not exact matches
While the prospectus objective identifies a fund's investment goals based on the wording
in the fund prospectus, the Morningstar Category identifies funds based on their
actual investment styles as measured by their underlying
portfolio holdings (
portfolio and other statistics over the past three years).
Indexes track returns strictly on a passive buy - and -
hold basis and do not factor
in any sort of
actual portfolio management.
So while low and negative interest rates across the globe has inspired flows into stocks, emerging market bonds and corporate credit
in search of higher yields, keep
in mind the high correlations of these assets to oil prices and the advantages of
holding actual diversifiers
in your
portfolio to smooth the ride.
In the August 2015 version of their paper entitled «Art as an Asset and Keynes the Collector», David Chambers, Elroy Dimson and Christophe Spaenjers study the performance of an
actual buy - and -
hold art
portfolio, the collection of economist John Maynard Keynes.
In contrast, Active Share is found by analyzing the
actual holdings of a manager's
portfolio and comparing those
holdings to its benchmark index.
There is no guarantee that the index put options included
in the program will effectively protect the investor's
actual portfolio holdings.
The values of the investments
held by the
portfolio may fluctuate
in response to
actual or perceived issuer, political, market, and economic factors influencing the financial markets generally, or relevant industries or sectors within them.
Ten - year TIPS (and / or I - Bonds) ladders
held to maturity make a lot of sense
in an
actual portfolio these days.
Due to lags
in reporting, a fund's
actual holdings may vary significantly from the most recent publicly disclosed
portfolio composition.
In light of my current Irish
portfolio allocation (16 %), and
actual stocks I
hold, I'd be reluctant to add another Irish share.
Phil's RSP Below are the
holdings of my RSP, with target weights and
actual weights (both expressed
in terms of the overall value of the account, not the
portfolio as a whole).
So when investment
portfolio benchmarks are set up properly, the only thing that usually changes is an index fund that represents its market and asset class, is substituted for an
actual investment the manager
held in the Real World.
The performance information presented
in certain charts or tables represent backtested performance based on combined simulated index data and live (or
actual) mutual fund results from January 1, 1928 to the period ending date shown, using the strategy of buy and
hold and on the first of each year annually rebalancing the globally diversified
portfolios of index funds.
Clearly,
actual holding periods, particularly short - term ones, could produce significant capital gains or losses — primarily for long - term bond funds with average maturities of bonds
in the
portfolio over 10 years.
And personally, it's academic —
in reality, my
actual / underlying
portfolio return all -
in (i.e. all disclosed & undisclosed
holdings, FX gains & losses, dividends, withholding taxes, fees, etc.) was actually a multiple of both my disclosed 2017 performance & ex-Kryptonite 2017 performance here.
This Top Nine isn't such a representative snapshot anymore —
in fact, it now comprises just 46 % of my current
portfolio — but it's all I've got here,
in terms of
actual disclosed
holdings.