On the other hand, his honchos say he is redeploying his assets for portfolio diversification and that he remains committed to Clearwire and its future.
Yet by buying shares in a mutual fund ie, joining with thousands of other investors they get wholesale rates, instant portfolio diversification, and professional investment advice.
Then there are go-anywhere mutual funds aimed at providing portfolio diversification by bobbing and weaving across a range of markets stocks, bonds, commodities and even currencies.
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Officials are working to making the investing public aware of the diversification and portfolio-protection qualities of gold, as well as its role as an inflation hedge, Toussaint said.
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Consequently, it is not surprising that investors do not understand advanced financial concepts such as differences between stocks and bonds, the role of the stock market, and the value of portfolio diversification.
In both cases, companies begin to experience the cost-saving benefits of employing an array of industry best practices including portfolio diversification, demand forecasting, and procurement automation.
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Additionally, for growth-oriented investors, fixed-income securities can provide investors with downside protection and diversification within a growth portfolio especially in a highly volatile market where additional, measured, short-term flights to quality are likely.
Gold, said the WGC, offers portfolio diversification since it lacks the credit and counterparty risk of other investments.
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Now in a new book Malkiel moves on to extol the virtues of global portfolio diversification--in index funds and actively managed funds -- at a time when many investors are licking their wounds from Southeast Asia, Russia and, not so long ago, Latin America.
They have made functional such techniques as portfolio diversification, hedging, structured finance, and credit scoring, all of which greatly reduce the riskiness of promises to repay.
What these results also show is the importance of asset allocation and the need for proper diversification with a portfolio oriented towards long-term growth.
Pinpointing how many investors are in the ETF as a short-term trade and how many are using the ETF as a portfolio diversification tool is hard to do, Quigg said.
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"The deal is perfectly aligned with CNOOC's long-term strategy of achieving growth through the exploration and development of offshore fields and achieving geographic diversification of the company's portfolio, " Fu said.
You need diversification to protect your portfolio from market shocks, recessions and depressions.
But if a person starts with just considering long stocks, bonds, commodities and real estate as being the only portfolio options, then true diversification cannot be achieved.
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The University of Chicago's Nobel laureate Harry Markowitz developed the concept of optimal portfolio diversification in the 1950s, but long before that investors and other businesspeople had intuitively grasped the idea.
Jacobs and Levy argue that modern portfolio theory the formula for diversification developed in the 1950s by economist Harry Markowitz, who later won the Nobel Prize for his breakthrough needs an urgent updating to account for the devastation that can be wrought by borrowed money.
One of the drawbacks of borrowing from your retirement plan is that the loan amount is no longer being invested in the portfolio of assets in your retirement account and, therefore, the opportunity for diversification using that amount is lost until the amount is returned to the plan.
Further, Toussaint related, portfolio managers might also be looking at the difference between gold and other commodities for diversification.
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To gain that fuller understanding, the adviser and investor must consider more than the typical metrics, such as portfolio diversification or levels of debt.
Diversification, patience and discipline are three keys to achieving a winning portfolio over the next 10 years.
As part of that effort, they published and widely circulated a study illustrating the benefits of foreign diversification using Modern Portfolio Theory.
Investors wanting to add private equity exposure to their portfolio can look to the PowerShares Listed Private Equity ETF ( PSP) for diversification and income.
However, two to six funds can provide all of the diversification and less of the headaches in managing a more commonly seen portfolio of a dozen or more fund.
This calls for investors to revisit their portfolio strategies to incorporate a wider range of asset classes and sectors to help provide the diversification and risk adjusted return potential that is needed to navigate these uncertain and volatile markets.
Investment in bonds as part of portfolio diversification should be done via a mix of sectors matching your income needs, risk tolerance and interest rate outlook.
Rebalancing and diversification would have only cushioned the blow of the last bear market, not prevented your portfolio from losing money.
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Some assistance in answering the diversification question is to see if your portfolio has any tactical asset allocation strategies, alternative investments and more.
More than 80 percent say they use them for diversification in client portfolios, and nearly half use ETFs to maintain market exposure while making portfolio adjustments.
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Wendy Trevisani, associate portfolio manager with Thornburg Investment Management, says E-Trade will succeed with its diversification from pure trading into banking and lending products.
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