Is Your Portfolio Truly Diversified?
One of the basic tenets of portfolio creation is that you should diversify. This is good advice — as long as you are truly diversified.
Unfortunately, it’s too easy to misconstrue what constitutes diversity. In many cases, investors divide up their portfolios between stocks and bonds, and call it good. While this can provide some basic diversity, you might not end up with true diversity.
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We all have biases. From politics to the way we view our own upbringing as “normal,” there are biases in our lives. And they affect more than just what they believe. They can also affect our behavior, and how we handle our finances.
I was logging into my Vanguard account when it told me that my current mix of investments differed from my target by more than 5%. A few years ago, sometime shortly after I opened the account, I set the target asset allocation based on the classic “
We live in times where it can be difficult to be an investor. It’s hard to know what will happen next, no matter who you are, or where your money is invested. Every day, it seems as though there’s a big move one way or the other, and it always seem as though everything is on the verge of a meltdown.
One of the ways that you can diversify your portfolio is to
Costco, one of my favorite companies (and one I am invested in), announced that it would be
One of the ways that investors — particularly beginning investors — add diversity to the portfolios is with the help of mutual funds.
For the last few years, I’ve started investing in blue chip companies that offer nice dividends, as an alternative to


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