«The only thing that makes these loans
held in portfolio risky is the government's rule.»
Not exact matches
It's a little
riskier than
holding a big bank
in your retirement account, but if you don't mind owning a $ 205 million market - cap business then there could be some good upside ahead, says Bruce Campbell, president and
portfolio manager at Kelowna - based StoneCastle Investment Management.
If you find yourself on the efficient frontier past the tangency point (see above), one can easily show that reducing risk involves no cash
holdings, but rather keeping all of your
portfolio in risky assets.
That means that as your stock funds increase
in value relative to your bond funds, a greater portion of your investment
portfolio will be
held in these
riskier, more aggressive assets — something that could throw off your allocation and risk tolerance.
With this said, wanting higher returns and
holding a large portion of your
portfolio in stocks like we do is
risky.
These decisions are especially
risky for retirees, whose greatest investment risk entails
holding too much of their
portfolio in assets that won't produce an acceptable long - term return, such as low - returning bonds.
You also need to diversify your
holdings within those asset classes and
hold,
in the case of a stock
portfolio, a variety of stocks — from
risky to less
risky,
in different currencies,
in different industries — to reduce your risk exposure.
The equities and long bond
holdings comprise «the»
risky portfolio, 54 %
in E and 46 %
in B.
More literate households
hold riskier positions when expected returns are higher, they more actively rebalance their
portfolios and do so
in a way that
holds their risk exposure relatively constant over time, and they are more likely to buy assets that provide higher returns than the assets that they sell.
Holding too much cash
in your
portfolio is very
risky.
But concentrating all your assets
in your home country, even if you're diversified among sectors and asset classes, is actually more
risky than
holding a global
portfolio.
Rather than trying to select an optimal
portfolio of individual equities from the thousands of securities
in the market, Sharpe showed that investors should simply
hold the full market (that is, all equities offered) as the
risky part of their allocation.
My solution's the same as I employ elsewhere
in my
portfolio — if certain
holdings are illiquid, possibly
riskier and / or less diversified, I simply mitigate those risks by reducing my stake size and / or demanding higher upside potential.