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Friday, April 24, 2009

Diversifying Your Financial Portfolio

By Rick Amorey

The science of investing and trading has a lot of things that one must understand if they plan to make it in that venture. But if there is only one advice that I could give to someone who wants to venture into this business, it's this: Don't bet it all on one horse. Diversify your portfolio, and don't settle for just one.

I understand that you have to start somewhere. If you invest in stocks, for example, there is a certain minimum that you have to invest. And that value is just too high for some of us. So many beginning investors really end up putting it all in one stock. But this is still a potentially devastating move. Even the best investor has experienced purchasing stocks and seeing it fall dramatically by breakfast the next day. So if you just have to put your money in only one investment, then make sure that the potential loss is not going to be devastating for you.

As an alternative, you can instead choose to join in on a mutual fund account. Mutual fund accounts are essentially companies that collect investors? money. This collective capital is then used to make purchases that can't otherwise be afforded by an individual. Managers of these companies act as the brokers that choose the best investments within the best interest of their clients. Basically, the risk here is that if a manager screws up, then he or she will end up burning someone else's money.

Of course, you could also opt for a bond investment. By lending money to other entities with interest, bonds are preferred for the relative security of the transaction. Unfortunately, bonds carry with it the disadvantage of taking forever to see an income, and it will only yield a desirable profit if you started investing really early in your life, or if you trade bonds that have not yet reached its maturity.

At this point, the goal of this article remains the same. I want you to learn to spread your investments, within the same type (like having multile stocks), or by spreading your portfolio wider and having money on stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. This way, you create a safety net: When one investment sours, the others will not be affected. - 23218

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