The phrase
"global market portfolio" refers to a collection of all the investments available worldwide. It includes stocks, bonds, real estate, and other assets from different countries and industries. The
global market portfolio shows how all the different types of investments from around the world are distributed among investors.
Full definition
By using ETFs and institutional passive mutual funds, you can capture meaningful exposure to the entire
global market portfolio with as few as 12 securities and a relatively low total portfolio cost.
The Fund seeks to maximize total return by investing in a diversified, risk -
balanced global market portfolio with exposure to global equities, sovereign debt, inflation - protected securities and commodities.
The Fund seeks to maximize total return by investing in a diversified, risk -
balanced global market portfolio with exposure to global equities, sovereign debt, inflation - protected securities and commodities.
The baseline scenario is that a passive investor holds
the Global Market Portfolio (GMP) in the absence of overriding views or predictions.
No one was truly passive, and many were beating
the global market portfolio simply by tilting toward at minimum, an equity premium.
Every portfolio touted by the buy & hold crowd, other than
the Global Market Portfolio, was taking some type of «active» bet.
The global market portfolio consists of four key sectors, all roughly equal in size: U.S. stocks, U.S. bonds, foreign stocks and foreign bonds.
If we remove the top 10 % of stocks in
that global market portfolio, the average annual return drops to 2.9 %.
As you consider how to diversify your stock portfolio — and how far to stray from
the global market portfolio — you might look at the world of stocks through three prisms:
While no provider has gone so far as to match the global market's roughly 50 % U.S. / 50 % international stock split and 40 % U.S. / 60 % international bond split, over time the average allocation in TDFs has inched closer to that of
the global market portfolio.