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Spreading The Risk Through Diversifying Your Portfolio.
Fund managers know this only to well and whether they are investing in a United Kingdom pension, QROPS or similar it is a very sucessfull investment strategy for them.
An easy way to clear up diversification is by having a look at a portfolio of two shares.
Two different companies that perform well at different times, in this example an umbrella factory and an ice cream factory.
Presuming that both firms have a good managerial team and are therefore well run companies they, in principle, will both be in a position to grow and flourish over the long run.
When it is summer time ice cream sales climb and the ice cream firms generate the majority of its profits. Inversely when it rains umbrella sales skyrocket and profits poor in.
A portfolio of shares can be diversified by mixing shares that have an inverse correlation, for example the ice cream factory and the umbrella factory. A successful fund executive will be well placed to outperform the market e.g. The FT100 by picking companies that he feels have good growth prospects. The fund chief won't use negative relationship as the only criteria for choosing companies to speculate in. However he'll seek to manage risk by selecting firms with a feeble relationship to one another. After all there are heaps of good businesses to be found across all investment sectors from banking to IT to Telecoms to energy.
If we take this a step further we are able to mix different asset sectors. A prime example during the past 11 years would be instruments and Gold.
Shares tend to suffer serious losses when the economy is heading to a recession or the industrial outlook worsens. An example of this being the credit crunch, the insolvency of Lehman Brothers that tipped the world into a deep recession. During these stark commercial times Gold performed well while shares slipped in price. Owning Gold would have protected your portfolio against losses.
When the economy improved, stock markets rallied from March 2003 to 2007 and briefly from March 2009 to the end of 2010 shares shot up in worth.
We never know what the future will bring us, that's the reason why diversification is the single most important investment technique there is.
You can find out more about investments, pensions, SIPP's QROPS pension and obtain the right QROPS advice from Richard Holmes who represents an independent company of Finance Advisors providing a high quality and impartial service on all facets wealth management and financial planning.
CES 2012: Smartphones round-up (Engadget)
The Superbowl of smartphones? Why, that would be Mobile World Congress in
Barcelona next month. But that didn't stop the mobile industry's heavy hitters
from giving us a taste of the year in wireless to come at CES. With Windows
Phones finally getting LTE, Intel's Medfield CPU making its handset debut,
Sony synergizing under its mega brand umbrella and fringe manufacturers wowing
attendees with stock Ice Cream Sandwich _and_ super-thin profiles, it appears
phone aficionados have plenty to anticipate. So, while you sit slack-jawed in
front of that computer screen, let's revisit some of the highlights of this
past week.
Continue reading _CES 2012: Smartphones round-up_
CES 2012: Smartphones round-up originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 14 Jan
2012 12:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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