What is a portfolio?

You hear the word thrown around all the time: Your uncle keeps talking about his portfolio, your coworker is bemoaning her investment portfolio and your best friend keeps telling you about how they're adding index funds to their portfolio. So what exactly is a portfolio? It's usually an investor's entire group of assets.

What is a conservative portfolio?

Conservative portfolio. This type is also called a defensive portfolio or a capital preservation portfolio. Conservative investment portfolios keep risk low to preserve your investment dollars. They achieve this by owning bond funds and income-producing dividend stocks.

What does Porto folio mean?

an altered form of earlier porto folio "portfolio," from Italian portafoglio (same meaning), from portare "to carry" and foglio "leaf, sheet"; portare from Latin portare "to carry" and foglio from Latin folium "leaf" — related to foliage, portable

What is a diversified portfolio?

a balanced/diversified portfolio It's a diversified portfolio, which will lower the risk. a global/international portfolio These funds are impossible to ignore if you want a broad international portfolio. a bond/stock/share portfolio These shares should amount to no more than 10 or 20% of a stock portfolio.