diversification
What is diversification?
Diversification involves the planned distribution of investments across various securities to minimize the risk exposure to a specific industry or geographic segment. However, the risk of over-diversification exists, in which an investor can at best expect to mirror the market returns, minus any brokerage fees or management expenses.
What is diversification?
The best long term mutual funds hold well-diversified portfolios of high quality stocks—stocks you can hold for a long time.
We think conservative investors can hold up to 10% of their portfolios in foreign stocks. One way to do that is to buy carefully chosen exchange traded funds (ETFs) that have an overseas focus.
The best ETFs offer very low management fees and well-diversified, tax-efficient portfolios of highquality stocks....
The best ETFs offer very low management fees and well-diversified, tax-efficient portfolios of highquality stocks....
Insider stock trading is just one small measure among many for finding the best investments
Investors may find it hard to believe that the best blue stocks can be the ones that are not yet popular.
Commodity investments mainly rise and fall with supply and demand. Revolutionary changes in the energy industry provide a great example.
When buying stocks on margin, you’re essentially borrowing money from your broker to buy securities.
If you were about to begin your investing career, you might want to have a list of the most important things you could do to be successful. This is that list.
We have distilled many years of experience into the 10 practices that successful investors most often follow....
Dear Reader: Most successful investors describe themselves as buy-and-hold investors. But for many, their strategy is more like buy-and-hold-till-I-get-bored, or until I see or hear about something better on TV or the Internet.
Instead, rather than ―buy and hold‖, we prefer a “buy and watch closely” strategy....
Instead, rather than ―buy and hold‖, we prefer a “buy and watch closely” strategy....
Successful investing in international ETFs has a lot to do with understanding the economies of the countries you invest in.
ATLANTIC TELE-NETWORK $71.94 (Nasdaq symbol ATNI; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (340-777-8000; www.atni.com; Shares o/s: 16.1 million; Market cap: $1.2 billion; Dividend yield: 1.8%) owns wireless and land-line operations in the U.S., Bermuda, the Caribbean and Guyana. It also owns solar power plants that sell electricity under long-term contracts. The company has now purchased the development business of U.K.-based Armstrong Energy Global. Armstrong develops, builds and owns solar farms in India. Over the next six to nine months, Atlantic plans to build solar plants in India with generating capacity of 50 megawatts. The company sees India’s favourable climate and unmet energy needs as ideal for solar power operations. It believes that solar energy development costs in many regions of India have reached grid parity. That means Atlantic can generate electricity at a profit without relying on direct government subsidies— something rarely, if ever, accomplished....