Concentrating your funds or having a large portion of
your portfolio in a particular sector or a particular stock could be risky.
Not exact matches
Definition:
Sector funds that are restricted to investing
in a
particular sector.Advice: These investments may prove appealing when one
particular sector is greatly outperforming the market as a whole, but as long term investments they're no better than a diversified
portfolio.
To the extent a
portfolio focuses on
particular countries, regions, industries,
sectors or types of investment from time to time, it may be subject to greater risks of adverse developments
in such areas of focus than a
portfolio that invests
in a wider variety of countries, regions, industries,
sectors or investments.
I have also added to
particular positions
in the real estate
sector, focusing on building a
portfolio of stocks I think can add value, regardless of what happens with the future direction of interest rates.
If broad trading flexibility is available then
sector rotation can be a viable way to position investment
portfolios to take advantage of market cycles and trends providing for capital appreciation potential
in particular areas of the investment universe.
To the extent a
portfolio focuses on
particular countries, regions, industries,
sectors or types of investment from time to time, it may be subject to greater risks of adverse developments
in such areas of focus than a
portfolio that invests
in a wider variety of countries, regions, industries,
sectors or investments.
The
portfolio is constructed from the bottom - up through fundamental analysis; which is to say the manager cares about finding 15 - 50 great stocks with no
particular interest
in paralleling some indexes
sector, size or country weightings.
On the other hand, the concentration of high yields
in particular sectors tends to force yield seeking investors into concentrated
portfolios, a risky endeavor.
As a result, Canadian dollar bond
portfolios are very concentrated
in several widely held issuers and a few industry
sectors, banking and utilities
in particular.
Concentration risk might also arise if different mutual funds
in the
portfolio of an investor have invested large amounts
in one
particular sector.
«One reason to introduce
sector ETFs into your
portfolio is because you're underrepresented
in a
particular sector,» says Yamada.
This includes reading each fund's last few annual reports, and evaluating returns (over 1, 3, 5 & 10 years, if available), the fund's geographic focus, any
particular company /
sector concentration, and the percentage of the fund's
portfolio invested
in unlisted stocks.
There are at least three ways of doing that: making bets that the market or
particular sectors or securities will fall (long / short equity), shifting assets from overvalued asset classes to undervalued ones (flexible
portfolios) or selling stocks as they become overvalued and holding the proceeds
in cash until stocks become undervalued again (absolute value investing).
The maritime
sector, which takes up little space on their balance sheets, has become a
sector that larger banks, and,
in particular European banks, want to exclude from their
portfolios due to the losses it causes them.
«We are starting to see more
portfolios and pooled transactions from our clients across all property
sectors, but
in particular office and multifamily,» says Matthew D. Lawton, executive managing director
in the Chicago office of HFF, a commercial real estate capital intermediary.