Harvest to reduce risk — If you will eventually need the proceeds from the security to fund your living expenses, selling other
securities in your portfolio with unrealized losses can be one way to offset some gains realized over time as you trim down the position.
Rather, I'm more likely to skew my asset mix by adding a bond ETF to boost my overall fixed income allocation, and in other years sell it and buy an equity ETF, instead of disturbing the
core securities in the portfolio to effect the same thing,
I do not try to time market to buy securities and keep a fixed schedule to keep
buying securities in my Portfolios that I'm comfortable with at regular interval, akin to dollar cost averaging, however, once in a while Mr. Market gets maniac and wants to give me bags of goodies at a discount, who won't take it?
These portfolio statements are also required to disclose
illiquid securities in the portfolio, investment made in rated and unrated debt securities, non-performing assets (NPAs), etc..
The idea is that if you have enough income -
paying securities in your portfolio, you will be insulated from market turbulence and can comfortably spend your dividends and coupon payments regardless of the changing value of your portfolio.
And accounts over $ 500,000 are eligible for Wealthfront's «Advanced Indexing» feature, which «works to increase your returns by weighting the individual
securities in your portfolio more intelligently» and minimize the tax impact on your returns.
The word «Balanced» in the name imposed a requirement «to have a specified minimum mix of equity and fixed income
securities in its portfolio at all times.»
The report compares the weightings of
securities in a portfolio with those of its benchmark and can be used to assess the degree of a portfolio's active management.
Insofar as TAVF keeps expanding in size as new moneys come into the Fund, or in any event, the Fund does not shrink because of redemptions, there is little pressure on the Fund to
sell securities in the portfolio.
While the investment objective stated in a fund's prospectus may or may not reflect how the fund actually invests, the Morningstar category is assigned based on the
underlying securities in each portfolio.
The report compares the weightings
of securities in a portfolio with those of its benchmark and can be used to assess the degree of a portfolio's active management.
The NAV is based on the value of all
the securities in the portfolio and typically fluctuates daily.
A portfolio turnover rate of 100 % is equivalent to the Portfolio buying and selling all of
the securities in its portfolio once in the course of the year.
«To answer these questions for short time periods, such as a day, a week, a month or a quarter, requires a sophisticated process that must identify and price
each security in the portfolio at least daily - some even argue that this should be done intra-day at the time of any transaction,» the Zephyr report stated.
With both security types, the per - share dollar amount of the fund is based on the total value of all
the securities in its portfolio, any liabilities the fund has and the number of fund shares outstanding.
They are then priced based on what
the securities in the portfolio are worth.
Shares are purchased & redeemed at the fund's net asset value (NAV) per share.NAV is simply the total value of
the securities in the portfolio divided by the total number of shares outstanding.
Therefore, the benefits of diversification hold only if
the securities in the portfolio are not perfectly correlated.
By offsetting capital gains with capital losses, investors are able to pay less overall taxes as long as they are willing to liquidate some of
the securities in their portfolio.
Portfolio variance looks at the covariance or correlation coefficient for
the securities in the portfolio.
The securities in your portfolio are kept separately from the bank's assets.
The result is a portfolio allocation which changes over time to reflect the evolving volatility and correlations of
the securities in the portfolio.