Ben shares some ideas on options for investors who are sitting on large gains in their portfolio, with a focus on position sizing (rebalance when something gets larger than your targeted asset allocation), avoiding
concentration in a single stock (specifically employer granted stocks), the benefits of diversification, and «reverse dollar cost averaging», whereby you gradually reduce your stake in highly valued equity by regular sales over a course of several months.
Concentration in single stocks is high with the top 3 holdings typically accounting for 50 % or more of fund assets.
Not exact matches
Single -
stock concentration goes against every bone
in AQR.
As a form of risk control, the portfolio construction process is designed to penalize high volatility
in stocks and avoid excessive
concentration in single sectors of the market.
«FTSE Russell has designed its Russell Dividend Growth Index Series to select
stocks that have demonstrated consistent increases
in dividend payments while screening against too much
concentration in single securities or sectors.
It's really a question of
concentration: would you prefer to have big
stock exposure to a
single industry that is generally safe, or a diversified mix of bonds from companies
in various industries that may be slightly riskier
in the aggregate?
Yes, it's a complex system, but
in terms of the ability of the ecosphere to support the current
stock of living beings, I think the system is pretty simple and can easily be monitored through observations of a
single measure: the
concentration of CO2
in the atmosphere.