Quotes About Diversification

The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it's always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance.

If you want to own individual stocks your portfolio should have a minimum of 10 to 12 stocks. It is never smart to have a larger portion of your retirement funds invested in one stock. No matter how stable that stock looks, we can never be sure of its future. If the money you want to devote to stocks is not enough to buy that many individual shares, then I recommend you focus on dividend-paying ETFs.

am not suggesting you keep all your money in stocks. No way! My message is that you should keep some money in stocks. If you are in your 50s and 60s today, depending on your situation, you should already have a significant portion of your portfolio—maybe half—invested in bonds. But the other half of your investable assets most likely are in stocks.

If you own dozens of stocks, you will minimize the chance that any single problem will sink your ship.

I'm going to use my good old suitcase metaphor one more time: A mutual fund is like a suitcase that holds dozens—and often hundreds—of individual stocks. If you like what is packed inside the suitcase, then you simply purchase shares of that mutual fund and, voilà, you are the proud owner of a small fraction of each one of the holdings in that suitcase. This gives you instant diversification, even though you bought just one mutual fund.

A general rule of thumb worth considering is to subtract your age from 100. So if you are 35, consider a portfolio that has 65% or so in stocks.

You want to make sure you have many different types of stock funds (large-, mid-, and small-cap, as well as growth and value) represented.

You want your diversified stock portfolio to include stocks from different industries, large companies, small companies, companies here in the United States, foreign companies, new companies, and old companies.

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

It's just very dull. Talking about yourself and about something that you've got less interest in than you had, because you've always moved on to something else.

It's really good to be forced to get away and try something else, find something that's exciting.

From singing to acting to songwriting to mom to fashion designer! It's been quite an evolution.

I don't think it'd be the right choice to continue indefinitely creating 'Souls' and 'Bloodborne' games.

If you look at firms like General Electric or other large companies, they don't just do one thing; they do many different things to generate sources of revenue.

I make my money from a lot of different sources, so I'm not depending on any one thing to really pull through.

Here is part of the tradeoff with diversification. You must be diversified enough to survive bad times or bad luck so that skill and good process can have the chance to pay off over the long term.

Don't tell me what you think, tell me what you have in your portfolio.

Nunca pergunte, a quem quer que seja, qual é sua opinião, previsão ou recomendação. Simplesmente pergunte o que a pessoa tem — ou não — em seu portfólio de investimentos.

butcher, baker, fusion-reactor maker.

Along with the fragmentation of markets is coming the fragmentation of marketing.

If you think about it, today's hit is tomorrow's niche. Almost

I think I would be making a mistake to actively try and just do everything completely different from 'Gilmore Girls.'

Britain is not just One Direction, Little Mix, and James Bay. There's Skepta killing it, there's Krept and Konan killing it.

I like to mix things up.