Not exact matches
Second, he directly relates turnover and volatility
reduction for an equally weighted
portfolio that: (1) initially selects the 500
of 3,000 liquid global
stocks with the lowest weekly volatility over the prior three years; and, (2) each subsequent month rebalances
stocks that have at least doubled their baseline
portfolio weight and sells
stocks when they fall out
of the top X %
of the volatility ranking, with X varying from 20 % (baseline) to 90 %.
A balanced
portfolio (two asset classes) consisting
of 60 % Canadian
stocks and 40 % Canadian bonds provided a substantial
reduction in risk.
Rebalancing
of her bond /
stock allocation to raise
stock level and cut bonds would lessen the
reduction in
portfolio value as interest rates rise.
The legendary Ben Graham, in his 1949 book The Intelligent Investor, argued that a
portfolio of just 10 to 30
stocks provides adequate diversification, and that adding more
stocks produces only a marginal
reduction in volatility (while increasing both transaction costs and the time needed to monitor the
portfolio).
Rebalancing
of her bond /
stock allocation to raise
stock level and cut bonds would lessen the
reduction in
portfolio value as interest rates rise.
Fisher believed strongly that you had achieved most
of the benefits
of risk
reduction from diversification with a
portfolio of from seven to ten
stocks.
In 1970, Lawrence Fisher and James H. Lorie released «Some Studies
of Variability of Returns on Investments In Common Stocks» published in The Journal Of Business on the «reduction of return scattering» as a result of the number of stocks in a portfoli
of Variability
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of Returns on Investments In Common
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reduction of return scattering» as a result of the number of stocks in a portfoli
of return scattering» as a result
of the number of stocks in a portfoli
of the number
of stocks in a portfoli
of stocks in a port
stocks in a
portfolio.
The lowest 20 percent
of stocks ranked by percent
reduction in shares outstanding are placed in the first quintile and the next 20 percent in the second quintile and so forth until we have five
portfolios of stocks.
If you employ a more conservative risk
reduction rule and limit the initial maximum
stock dropping risk to -10 %, you could buy 66 shares ($ 500 ÷ $ 7.50) which would represent 4.95 %
of your
stock portfolio and scratching the max.
A balanced
portfolio (two asset classes) consisting
of 60 % Canadian
stocks and 40 % Canadian bonds provided a substantial
reduction in risk.
According to Modern
Portfolio Theory, asset allocation is the primary determinant
of future returns and in the
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So while it's still a valuable exercise to carefully plan your equity
portfolio to take advantage
of a free lunch where you can, the real power
of diversification comes in the form
of risk
reduction when you start to mix
stocks and bonds.
With 20 % bond, the return was still higher than an all
stock portfolio, but the
reduction of volatility was significant.