And while some hot penny stocks can be a worthwhile addition to the aggressive
portion of a diversified portfolio, you should in general only buy them with money you're willing to lose.
Certainly, the short - term volatility of the
price of a diversified portfolio of claims on real capital assets is higher than the volatility of the price of T - bills.
The Fama - French three factor model, using the SMB and HML factors, explains over 90 % of
returns of diversified portfolios, instead of the average 70 % explained by the CAPM.
I've just recently started getting into crowdfunded real estate as a
way of diversifying my portfolio with GroundFloor (it's one of the only platforms I've found that allows non-accredited investors).
Many of our clients hold a mix of exchange listed and OTC products supporting the
advantages of a diversified portfolio with a facilitator who offers collateral efficiency through cross-product margining benefit in a single account.
And while we're at it, we should tackle the other bogeyman of stock selection — a bias towards a concentrated portfolio, which further undermines the very
idea of a diversified portfolio.
There are only a couple weeks to go until the end of the year, and for a while now, the investing public has seen plenty of material supporting the benefits or
risks of diversifying a portfolio through the use of preferred securities.
The chart above shows the
impact of a diversified portfolio with an average annual return of 7 % in a low fee index relative to the same portfolio with a 1 % and 2 % fee drag.
It might sound clever to abandon
aspects of a diversified portfolio at times when you're worried about rising interest rates, stock market valuations or geopolitical events.
The Fund leverages the expertise and collaboration of three experienced portfolio managers, offering a professionally managed mix of stocks and bonds — generally considered the
cornerstones of a diversified portfolio — in a single fund.
Given investment grade bonds are still an important part
of a diversified portfolio for risk mitigation yet they may have valuation loss due to a rising interest rate environment, what is an investor to do?
The International Strategy seeks to improve the performance
of a diversified portfolio by exposing it to assets located in markets around the globe that have markedly different characteristics than markets of the United States.
The
principle of a diversified portfolio is based upon the Nobel Prize winning ideas of Markowitz who concluded that because different assets respond differently to market conditions, it is possible to design a portfolio in which you would be less exposed to market downturns.