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1.
If a mutual fund no longer meets one of your investment criteria, should you sell it?
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Maybe, maybe not. It becomes a more important issue once it no longer meets most of your criteria.
2.
Which of the following would be valuable to do before you start monitoring your investment portfolio?
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Both of the above. Both of these are wise things to do. Though you can develop your monitoring procedures on your own, creating an investment policy statement would accomplish that as well as additional objectives.
3.
What is the danger in letting the strongest performers of your portfolio stay in there and continue performing, as opposed to regular rebalancing?
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It increases the overall risk level, which can magnify losses during a downturn. And that means you might not meet the goals for which you are investing in the first place.
4.
When monitoring your investment portfolio, you would be wise to _______.
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Develop a set of monitoring procedures. Approach your portfolio scientifically with a set of procedures, goals, and criteria.
5.
The best way to put an investment's performance into context is to compare its returns to those of _______.
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An appropriate benchmark. Compare the returns of your investments to the benchmark you chose.