Not exact matches
Just as one bad apple can ruin a
basket of fruit, one lousy
stock can sour a portfolio.
ETFs offer a way to own a
basket of preferred shares that provide more diversification than
just owning a single
stock, and they are more efficient than buying multiple
stocks.
When a non distributing ETF receives cash from the dividends
of the companies, it takes that cash and reinvest it in the whole
basket of stocks that compose the index, not
just in the companies that provided the dividends.
Why can't the average investor
just buy a
basket of value
stocks?
I find it very difficult to include parameters for company fundamentals so I
just do that manually once I reduce the CCC list to a manageable
basket of stocks.
A closed end fund invests in a
basket of assets
just like any mutual fund does, but it trades on an exchange like a
stock.
We're hopeless business analysts, and we think one needs to be a reasonable business analyst to pick Buffett / Magic Formula
stocks (which we recall K - Swiss has been for some time) rather than
just buying a
basket of Magic Formula
stocks.
In fact, you can trade an Index
just like a
stock, and gain exposure to a diversified
basket of index components in a fraction
of the time, and with a fraction
of the expense, that buying the
stocks of the individual components would take.
(ETFs are
baskets of securities that trade on exchanges
just like
stocks.)
If at the start
of day1, the ETF purchased the
basket of stocks, then it
just needs to hold on to the udnerlying
stocks to make sure that they are in sync with the index.
I mean, the ETF is
just buying a
basket of underlying
stocks that represent the corresponding index.
ETFs are
just the same old thing (a
basket of the same underlying
stocks)
just packaged up in a different closed - fashion
of marketing wrapper.
Motif Investing is a brokerage firm that gives investors the ability to invest in a
basket of stocks surrounding a specific idea with
just one trade.
Because many
stocks are purchased and not
just one, the risk is spread across a
basket of stocks.
Here they're usually
just either a few mutual funds blended together, or
just the same underlying
basket of stocks and bonds that's in all other similar mutual funds at the time.
So before I head to the craft store to
stock up on all new supplies, I really want to utilize a lot
of the supplies I have that are
just hanging out in my storage
baskets.