Like oil and hate telecom? Asset allocate accordingly. Nervous about the stock market...just happy to have safe bonds, at least mostly? Asset allocate accordingly. Investing for a 30-year time horizon? Then you probably want growthy smaller company securities and no cash or bonds.
That's what asset allocation funds do. They're essentially a custom car you configure to drive you to retirement or to whatever your next set of financial goals are. There are 14,372,083 asset allocation funds in the world, so have fun shopping.
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Finance: What is a Diversified Mutual Fu...20 Views
finance a la shmoop what is a diversified mutual fund? all right people
listen up it's lots of investments stocks bonds exposure to risk and reward [Risk and reward punch man in face]
everywhere energy, telecom, insurance, real estate, banking, chemicals, tech, retail not
enough diversity yet well those are just sectors or industries and there's a
whole bunch of them what about geography geographic diversity the US, Russia, China
Europe someday maybe Mars Elon what do you think well maybe exposures to [Elon Musk floating in space]
different currencies or commodities cycles as the diversity you seek hmm
well that's diversity Benetton eat your heart out so the bigger question is why
would you want such diversity? well the idea is that you mitigate risk by being
diverse the don't put all your eggs in one basket thing if one investment goes [Value of investment graph appears]
bust well at least you have plans B C and D to fall back on and if this is
grabbing you check out our videos on efficient markets theory for more on the
subject or maybe diversify your knowledge and watch all of our finance
videos food for thought and you know please click on the ads that we got to [Man holding begging sign]
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