Sentences with phrase «specific class of stock»

Occasionally, companies find it necessary to concentrate the voting power of a company into a specific class of stock, in which a certain set of people own the majority of shares.

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Instead of buying a specific asset class like a company's stock or a currency, futures and options contracts allow traders to profit from their bets on future prices and to hedge losses on what they already own.

One way to do that is by assembling a group of individual funds or ETFs each of which provides exposure to a specific asset class — large - company stocks, small shares, government and corporate bonds, etc..

Although I don't recommend two - asset - class portfolios such as that, this comparison is a good way to demonstrate the value of including a specific asset class (in this case international small - cap value stocks) into a portfolio.

According to 1990 Nobel Prize winner Harry Markowitz's «Modern Portfolio Theory», almost 92 % of investment returns are the result of how assets are allocated among different classes, while only 2 % are due to the specific stocks and bonds you choose to buy within each asset class.