A semi-random investing rule that limits investment to no more than 2% of a given portfolio in any one security. The goal is to lesson shocks to the portfolio by forcing diversity and exposure to a wide range of investments. The problem: it encourages a portfolio to sell their winners (i.e. if they pierce 2% because the stock does well, that security has to be sold so that the overall position winnows down to 2%), and buy more of their losers. The result is often APOC (a portfolio of crap).
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Finance, a la shmoop. What is a country basket index fund?
All right we're picking daisies, marigolds, lilies so uh how do we [Pictures of flowers]
rephrase in Italian? Like, we want to fill a portfolio basket with just stocks [Pouring a glass of red wine]
representing the overall financial health of Italy. Is Italy healthy? While
they smoke a lot they drink a lot of wine they eat a bunch of pasta but there
always seems to be a woman from some small village who's celebrating her [Old woman at a birthday party]
117th birthday over there. Well a country basket is just an index fund of
stocks representing a country. Like we're doing Korea... South we're gonna have
in that basket dunno some Samsung, a load of Daewoo, a hunk of Hyundai and some [Company stocks being added to the basket]
nice barbecue on the side. That'd be our Korean country basket and it's a good
basket to fill if you're just bullish on a country but not really sure which
flower on which to place your bets. It's like instead of trying to decide between [The stocks in the basket turn into flowers]
roulette or poker or slots... Well you just buy stock in Las Vegas
Sands you know you bet on the entire casino, and bueno Fortuna you know good [Someone checking their cards in a casino]
luck there pal, doesn't the house always win? Yeah so why do people keep going there?...
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