Minimum Diversification Needs

First group. All kinds of investments may be restricted only to the big entrenched kind of adequately chosen growth stock. If such is the case, the investor may have a goal for having at least five such stocks all together. In other words the investor would not invest over twenty percent of his full original pledge in any of these stocks. It does not signify however that if one was to grow quicker than the rest of them, so that ten years later he found forty percent of his total market value in one stock, he should in any way interfere with this kind of holding. By saying this we are obviously assuming that the investor is well aware of his holding and the future keeps on looking at least as good for these stocks as it did before.

An investor that uses the guide of twenty percent of his first investment for every company should realize that there is no more than a reasonable quantity o relation, if any, between the product lines of the different companies he has.

Let’s say for example that if the investor had Dow as one of the five companies there would not be any reason why another one equally as good would not be considered as another one. There are only a few places where the product lines of these two new companies overlap or compete. If that investor were to have for example Dow as well as some other company that was similar to Dow in the types of activities it is involved in, this buying may still be a wise one given that he had enough reason for making such a buy. Owning two stocks that are involved in the same line of activity could be something that turns out to be quite beneficial over the years. Nonetheless, in this type of case the investor will need to remember that he will need to keep an open eye for problems that might affect the industry that is involved.

Second group. Some or all of the investor’s investments may be placed inside the group of stocks about halfway between the young growth companies with their high amount of risk and the institutional kind of investment that was previously looked into. These would include the companies that have good management teams instead of just one man managements. They would involve companies that are doing an amount of business close to fifteen and one hundred million dollars per year and quite well well-established in their industries. At least a couple of these types of companies should be looked on as needed in order to balance each single company of the 1 type. Therefore, if only companies in this 2nd type were involved, an investor may start off with ten percent of his available funds in each one of them. This would then mean that he would have a total amount of ten stocks all together. Nonetheless, the companies that are in this general arrangement can differ quite a bit between each other as far as the degree of risk is concerned. It might be a good idea to consider the ones with the higher inherent risk as applicants for eight percent of the original investment, instead of for the ten percent. Either way, checking at every stock of this kind as an option for an eight to ten percent of total original investment, as opposed to a twenty percent for the first group, should once again offer the outline for the tolerable minimum diversification.

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