Not exact matches
If you can't stomach the thought of 20 percent of your
portfolio disappearing in a bad year, you need to
factor that into how you choose your investments — even if you don't need the money for a long time.
The ideal
portfolio optimization algorithm perfectly balances trading costs, instruments, asset classes,
factor exposure (but only when needed), strategies, and
does it all under constraints imposed by risk management.
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Do keep in mind though that investing in 25 startups doesn't guarantee you will achieve results similar to the Correlation Ventures study and that «sufficient diversification» is ultimately dependent upon a number of
factors including the number of startups in your
portfolio, industry representation, stage, risk appetite, et al..
But how often
do we really consider the
factors that determine the value of our
portfolio?
Bonds can be a core low risk component of retirement
portfolios, but they
do come with one significant risk
factor: if interest rates go up, the bonds you already own will plummet in value.
By adding alternative asset classes, we can enhance diversification by selecting exposure to
factors that don't typically come from a traditional balanced
portfolio of stocks and bonds.
Indexes track returns strictly on a passive buy - and - hold basis and
do not
factor in any sort of actual
portfolio management.
@Brain: No, the
portfolio does not
factor taxes.
The upshot was that now you didn't need a brilliant manager to pick individual stocks: you could simply design a
portfolio that was exposed to the Fama - French risk
factors in whatever proportion suited your goals.
There's a new Shiller CAPE ETF that
does something like this) so that I could tilt my
portfolio toward the
factors / styles that offer the best relative valuation at any given time.
However, we observed that
factor correlations
did not remain constant across various market regimes, and it is important to be mindful of the changes when blending different
factors in a
portfolio.
If you can't stomach the thought of 20 percent of your
portfolio disappearing in a bad year, you need to
factor that into how you choose your investments — even if you don't need the money for a long time.
As you consider
factor products for your clients»
portfolios, don't forget about the elephant in the room.
Of course, many
factors will change this allocation such as home bias, currency risks, and market instabilities, which is why even our
portfolio does not represent the world economies.
On the other hand, it
does pay to obsess about
factors that affect investment decisions like
portfolio diversification, investment quality, and the extent to which your
portfolio suits your personal goals and temperament.
And to take it one step further, you're probably in a relationship with someone who just doesn't care to discuss the relative merits of
factor investing compared with modern
portfolio investing.
At any rate, over a million students across the nation
do not receive proper financial aid which is just another
factor in the entire student loan debt
portfolio.
Buy and Hold: Allocate one - sixth of a
portfolio to each of the six
factor - based smart beta strategies and
do not subsequently rebalance this mix.
Since the Adviser considers other
factors in addition to traditional investment criteria when selecting
portfolio securities, it may forego a profitable investment opportunity or sell a security when it may be disadvantageous to
do so.
So, it's important that we know what
factor exposure
do we have and is that the
factor exposure that ultimately I want in my
portfolio?
And generally speaking, we think the way to use a single
factor is as a tilt in your
portfolio over long periods of time, which is generally what people
do now.
But how often
do we really consider the
factors that determine the value of our
portfolio?
The VIAS model
portfolio returns
do not reflect actual trading and may not reflect the impact that material economic and market
factors may have had on VIAS» decision - making had VIAS actually managed client funds during the performance periods displayed above.
As we
do with all
factors surrounding potential acquisitions and our existing
portfolio, we analyze development trends very carefully, looking at units under construction in the overall market, the sub-market as well as the overall occupancy, penetration and growth within the markets.