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What is a stock market portfolio?
Building your Portfolio
Risk Factors The "Risk/Return Tradeoff" describes the pros and cons of risky investing.When your investment portfolio includes a lot of high risk stock, you have a greater potential for a high return.However, you also have greater potential to see more losses.With a lower risk stock market portfolio, your assets are safer but the likelihood of a large return is also very low.Every portion of the market carries a different level of risk with it. For example, bonds generally less risky than stocks.Government bonds are less risky than company bonds.Certificates of deposit are even less risky than government bonds.As you continue down the list your investments become safer and safer, but also less and less lucrative.The best way to build your portfolio is to have some high risk investments and some low risk investments.This is referred to as diversifying your stock market portfolio. Diversification When you diversify your stock market portfolio you are finding a middle ground between the advantages and disadvantages of both ends of the investment spectrum.Most people feel more comfortable investing in high risk stock if they also have other investments in low risk bonds.There are conservative portfolios which err on the side of safe investments and aggressive portfolios that are longer term and higher risk.A conservative portfolio is more than %50 fixed income and securities.An aggressive portfolio consists more of equities or investments with a greater probability of capital growth. In some cases your broker will choose the stocks that fit in to the portfolio type that you have chosen.If you are investing by creating your stock market portfolio on your own consider that every investment sectors have subcategories.For example, a bond can be a government bond or a company bond.Interest rates will differ along with dates of maturity.So, diversifying your portfolio can be quite tedious. Investing Young
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