Quotes About Portfolio

THE PRINCIPAL REASON WE SHOULD ALL ARTICULATE OUR LONG-TERM investment policies explicitly and in writing is to protect our portfolios from ourselves.

Under pressure from a growing movement of people who want their money out of fossil fuels, universities, pension investors and foundations are looking to exclude coal, oil and gas stocks from their portfolios.

Walker Photos For almost thirty years, photographer Diana Walker has had special access to her friend Steve Jobs. Here is a selection from her portfolio.

Portfolio of Diana Walker Photos For almost thirty years, photographer Diana Walker has had special access to her friend Steve Jobs. Here is a selection from her portfolio.

Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

We believe that a policy of portfolio concentration may well decrease risk if it raises, as it should, both the intensity with which an investor thinks about a business and the comfort-level he must feel with its economic characteristics before buying into it. In stating this opinion, we define risk, using dictionary terms, as "the possibility of loss or injury.

It's not possible for investors to consistently outperform the market. Therefore you're best served investing in a diversified portfolio of low-cost index funds [or exchange-traded funds].

much diversification is really diworsification.

I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded.

It is a tenet of my investment style that, on the subject of common stock investment, maximizing the upside means first and foremost minimizing the downside. The deleterious effect of permanent capital loss on portfolio returns cannot be overstated.

Many financial advisors recommend that you diversify for your own protection. What they fail to tell you is that it is also for their protection. Since most financial advisors cannot tell you exactly which stock or mutual fund is a great investment, they tell you to buy a bunch of them.

I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.

Early in my career, we were just pure bottoms-up stock pickers.

I own stock, and I also insure my car with Geico.

I don't think anybody ever makes any money buying and selling stock. They have to make money by keeping the stock.

I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.

Anyone with a pension or retirement is an investor in the stock market.

I have invested in the stock market since I was very young.

I am not criticizing investing in the stock market; I am an investor.

If you were to just design the perfect retirement plan, you would own the stock market or you would own the bond market. You would get all the costs or all that you possibly could out of the system. So on an annual basis, if the market went up 8 percent, you would get 7.8 or 7.9 percent.

Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.

Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.

Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That's because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from.