Unless you have a multi-million-dollar portfolio, it's hard to purchase enough individual investments to
get broad diversification.
In the beginning, starting with a target date fund is a good way to go in order to
get broad diversification in a portfolio that is age - appropriate.
And I think this gives another alternative to an average retail individual investor, maybe to start constructing their portfolio more like an institution and
get broad diversification that's extremely transparent, so they know what they own at a very low cost, not to mention there's a lot of tax efficiencies that go along with it.
George can reduce his mutual fund fees and
get broad diversification in his RRSP with a simple balanced fund that should reward him with a decent 4 % annual return over the long run.
Each eDirect investment acquires and manages many individual real estate properties, which means
you get broad diversification with the click of a button.
Not exact matches
And in that respect, the financial services industry has actually helped us, because since the start of the Couch Potato, when you could basically only invest in two asset classes, you can now
get very
broad diversification.
Fortunately, you can
get pretty much all the
diversification you need by investing in a few
broad - based stock and bond index funds.
It turns out that as long as you
get the big decisions correct —
broad diversification, low cost and long - term discipline — the others barely matter.
That concentration is unlikely to change in the near future, but the greater
diversification you can
get in this ETF compared to the Vanguard Information Technology ETF makes it a better choice for those who need
broader exposure to the stock market, in general.