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1.
What's the largest potential problem with owning too few stocks?
You run the risk that one bad stock pick could produce an extremely large loss. If you hold too few stocks, you run the risk that one bad stock pick could produce an extremely large loss. For example, if you owned three stocks, each worth one third of your portfolio, and one of your stocks went to zero, your portfolio would lose one third of its value. Swinging only at fat pitches is good, not bad.
2.
Instead of asking whether stocks or mutual funds would be better to have in your portfolio, a more strategic question might be, _______.
How can my portfolio benefit the most from each of these investments? Though you may ultimately decide to stick with either, you should ask the question anyway. You may be surprised at the answer.
3.
If you decide to follow your circle of competence, your stock selections will gravitate to _______.
Either of the above. Either or perhaps both. But it is probably not wise to invest your entire portfolio that way.
4.
If you want to buy the stock of a certain company but you find out its product is the target of frequent lawsuits, you are looking at what kind of risk?
Unsystematic. This is the unique risk of the company that can be offset through diversification.
5.
Which number of stocks in a portfolio is the most likely to let you outperform the market?
15. There is an optimum range of stocks, and it is 12 to 20.
6.
The concept of portfolio weighting refers to _______.
The percentage of your portfolio that each stock occupies. The percentage is where the weighting comes in.
