A list of the financial assets held by an individual or a bank or other financial institution

Usage examples of portfolio.

A new transparency appeared, showing how the two portfolios would be reported under the traditional, accrual accounting and the mark-to-market approach.

But with accrual accounting, the matched portfolio showed a loss while the dangerous portfolio showed big profits.

Each time he identified the pattern he was searching for, he pulled the buy order a yellow piece of paper on which was the name of the company in whose shares Sagamore was investing, the number of shares purchased, the date purchased, the brokerage house with which the trade was executed, and the portfolio man ager who had ordered the trade and walked down the hall to the office equipment station and made a photo copy.

I will not see the final montage until Shaun has presented his portfolio to my literary agent, Jonathan Lloyd.

He juggles the portfolio full of painted boards to one arm, then frees both hands, crumples wax paper back and consumes the mustardy dog in four chunks more swallowed than chewed.

He was half way between Cape Town, where he had left Mr Farquhar, and False Bay, sitting in a sparse grove of proteas in a dust-storm, clasping a loose portfolio of plants to be dried for his herbal, and dividing what attention he had left between a small flock of crested mouse-birds and a troop of baboons.

He was interrupted by the entrance of Noel, who carried under his arm a black shagreen portfolio, ornamented with his monogram.

I straightened myself in my stirrups, and strived to persuade my understanding that this was real Egypt, and that those angles which stood up between me and the West were of harder stuff, and more ancient than the paper pyramids of the green portfolio.

When Antonin saw the judge enter, followed by a little weazened man in black, with a portfolio under his arm, he at once knew what he had come for.

Lou Calabrese, not Candy Sparks, cheerleading captain and star of every musical Bay Haven Central put on, or Amber Castiglione, homecoming queen and possessor of a professionally done portfolio of modeling headshots.

Since the morning the portfolio was produced, Denbigh had given a more decided preference to her niece.

Washington Square Park, carrying a Kenneth Cole leather portfolio that holds my lawbooks and a bottle of Evian water.

A locked portfolio, bound in tanned human skin, held certain unknown and unnameable drawings which it was rumored Goya had perpetrated but dared not acknowledge.

He realized that his portfolio and his character sketches of the minor players and of Hanus and Malicia were still in the studio.

Instead he feigned an interest in such things in order to prepare a portfolio of investments for the time when his life would be his own.