Not only might their limited histories provide an incomplete picture of the full range of market conditions possible, but as an asset class gains popularity and attracts more money, over-investment can deteriorate
its risk and reward characteristics.
For better or worse, the securities you buy to represent each asset class should have roughly the same
risk and reward characteristics of the asset class in general.
The focus is on how to construct a stock portfolio that is designed to meet specific goals, has acceptable
risk and reward characteristics, and makes sense to you.
Once target allocations are set, investors then select the funds offering the most appropriate
risk and reward characteristics.
Beta strategies are designed to capture broad market exposure, while carry involves manufacturing return opportunities by carefully underwriting specific trades that offer attractive
risk and reward characteristics.
You have the investment
risks and rewards characteristic of variable life insurance, coupled with the ability to adjust your premiums and death benefit that is characteristic of universal life insurance.
Not exact matches
Construction methods include equal weighting, two versions of minimum volatility, three versions of mean - variance optimization, eight versions of
reward - to -
risk timing (six of which involve factor models)
and a
characteristic - based scheme that each year estimates stock weights based on market capitalization, book - to - market ratio, gross profitability, investment, short - term reversal
and momentum.
Extra points if: As with qualified charitable distributions
and donating appreciated securities, investors can employ a donor - advised fund to improve their portfolios»
risk /
reward characteristics.
There are no broad conclusions to this idea other than to conclude that each situation is unique
and each investment should be identified based on its own unique
risk /
reward characteristics, not some box that says «this is a compounder», «this is a special situation», etc...
And, the composite of the four indexes (marked with a grey dot) has better
risk or
reward characteristics than the average of the single - metric noncap indexes.
Characteristics of the political opportunity structure include factors that place the careers of judges at
risk,
reward judges for service,
and determine the costs for remaining on courts.