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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
portfolio
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
diversified
▪ Thus the minimum cost of a reasonably diversified portfolio would be 30,000-40,000.
foreign
▪ This paper sets out to examine the factors behind foreign portfolio investment in the United Kingdom since the mid-1970s.
▪ No announcement was made regarding responsibility for the Foreign Affairs portfolio.
▪ He had twice held the Foreign Affairs portfolio since 1979, and was generally considered loyal to Moi.
international
▪ Prior to the Ultramar acquisition, the Company had already assembled an extensive international land portfolio.
key
▪ On Dec. 23 Alia announced a reshuffle of key economic portfolios in an effort to tackle the country's economic crisis.
▪ A number of key portfolios were placed directly under the President's supervision in the form of Ministries-delegate.
▪ So too were several of the other key portfolios handed out yesterday, 18 hours after ministers were first named.
large
▪ Under his arm he carried a large portfolio of drawings and she saw that he had pencils sticking out from his pocket.
▪ Jim slipped on his overcoat and grabbed his briefcase as well as his large portfolio case to lend credibility to his story.
▪ He breathed deeply and put his shoulders back, shifted the large black portfolio from one hand to the other.
▪ It involved Executive Life, a Californian insurance company that went bust when its large portfolio of junk bonds collapsed in value.
▪ This is a large landscape portfolio of soft-ground etchings.
▪ However, it may be part of a larger portfolio revision.
total
▪ The total portfolio exceeds nine hundred million.
▪ So I would confine this holding to 15 percent of your total retirement portfolio.
▪ Third World loans represent a mere six percent of their total portfolios.
▪ Beacon will acquire 3. 3 million square feet of space, bringing its total portfolio to 10 million square feet.
■ NOUN
analysis
▪ The relevant level of focus for strategic portfolio analysis is the yield required by different SBUs.
defence
▪ Kerekou was to remain head of state during the transitional period, but with the defence portfolio removed from his responsibilities.
equity
▪ At current Nikkei levels, analysts believe most banks already have implicit losses on these equity portfolios.
investment
▪ Most would be owned by investors such as leasing companies, financial institutions and investment portfolios.
▪ What they were building was not an ideal city but prudent investment portfolios.
▪ Some banks manage customers' investment portfolios with the customer and/or bank determining overall investment strategy.
▪ The fund last year changed its charter, loosening the provision that restricted its investment portfolio to 100 percent dividend-paying stocks.
▪ On 5 April 1992, shares in Dixons represented 1.8% of the investment portfolio, which had a market value of £127.3m.
▪ Is our investment portfolio on track to accomplish our retirement goals?
▪ You buy a trust's shares, which give you a stake in its investment portfolio.
▪ Not very subtly, he raised the question of Louise's investment portfolio.
loan
▪ Banks have taken a close look at their loan portfolios and turned white with fear.
▪ Wachovia said its loan portfolio increased 13 percent from a year earlier.
▪ A bank will also consider overall exposure to each country which will determine the need for loan portfolio diversification.
management
▪ Smaller investors with £30,000 can use the bank's unit trust portfolio management service.
▪ NatWest Private Banking's discretionary portfolio management service will accept customers with £75,000 to invest.
▪ We provide a portfolio management service for charities with portfolios of £1m and above.
▪ The third type of stockbroking service is portfolio management.
▪ For investors with less, it offers a unit trust portfolio management service for a minimum of £25,000.
▪ If you opt for portfolio management, be sure to keep a close eye on how your broker performs.
▪ It offers a discretionary portfolio management service to clients with a minimum of £100,000 to invest.
manager
▪ What price would the portfolio manager be prepared to pay for these shares given a holding period of 5 years? 3.
▪ Or take a portfolio manager who has worked for a large company with 30 analysts at her beck and call.
market
▪ The market return minus the risk-free return is the risk premium that investors expect for investing in the market portfolio.
▪ Therefore, it is appropriate to start at the market portfolio and consider it in some depth.
▪ Sharpe calculated a benchmark ratio using the Dow Jones Industrial Average as a proxy for the market portfolio.
▪ Roll argued that the true market portfolio is a mean variance efficient portfolio and can not be observed.
▪ The proxy might be efficient when the market portfolio is inefficient. 2.
▪ The proxy might be inefficient when the market portfolio is efficient.
property
▪ Environmental audit General property audit - collates information on a building or property portfolio in order to establish a long-term strategic plan.
▪ The licensed chemist property portfolio was valued at the year end by Chesterton.
▪ This gives Ronson until 1999 to achieve his pledge of selling Heron's entire £1 billion property portfolio.
▪ These show that the property portfolio is worth about £1.2 billion at present prices compared with £1.7 billion at the last year end.
share
▪ This profit is independent of the value of the share portfolio at delivery.
■ VERB
build
▪ Investors can build a portfolio of zeros with staggered maturity dates to suit their requirements.
▪ Mr Afman built up a profitable portfolio of loans, mostly to small, independent film studios and heavily secured.
diversify
▪ The coefficient of diversification measures the extent to which the portfolio has been diversified.
▪ Barbach, who has been in the market about 10 years, has a diversified portfolio.
hold
▪ He had twice held the Foreign Affairs portfolio since 1979, and was generally considered loyal to Moi.
▪ The association divested tobacco-related holding in its own portfolio in 1986.
▪ In other words, people hold a whole portfolio of assets of varying degrees of liquidity - from cash to central heating.
▪ It buys loans either to hold in its portfolio or to repackage as mortgage-backed securities.
▪ Several coalition partners who hold important ministerial portfolios have dug in their heels.
include
▪ The portfolio of 30 hotels includes the Grand Hotel in Berlin.
▪ Emap's portfolio also includes Automotive Management, the leading trade magazine in the franchised dealer sector.
▪ The least liquid end of the portfolio includes high-profit assets, such as loans to individuals and companies.
▪ Her portfolio includes responsibility for a new food-safety policy.
invest
▪ To invest in a balanced portfolio of assets with the requirement to maintain total shareholder returns.
▪ The best way to invest in a portfolio of international bonds is through a managed fund, such as a unit trust.
▪ The market return minus the risk-free return is the risk premium that investors expect for investing in the market portfolio.
manage
▪ Financial institutions - which act as intermediaries between lenders and borrowers, and manage their own asset portfolios. 3.
▪ For many charities it would mean moving from having your own portfolio to having a unit in a managed portfolio.
▪ In this chapter it has been argued that the uncertainty map can be of great help in managing such a portfolio.
▪ Some banks manage customers' investment portfolios with the customer and/or bank determining overall investment strategy.
▪ He has a team of five executives who manage a portfolio of 200 investments between them.
offer
▪ Mercury is one exception, offering only its managed portfolio, which operates in the style of a private client service.
▪ For investors with less, it offers a unit trust portfolio management service for a minimum of £25,000.
▪ It offers a discretionary portfolio management service to clients with a minimum of £100,000 to invest.
retain
▪ For the moment, Mr V.P. Singh has retained a number of portfolios, the most senior of which is defence.
▪ Ratsiraka handed over many of his responsibilities to Razanamasy, although retaining the portfolios of Defence and Foreign Affairs.
▪ Included within the 25-member body were six new members, whilst 15 Ministers retained their former portfolios.
▪ Despite widespread calls for Hashimoto's resignation, Kaifu insisted that he would retain his portfolio.
sell
▪ In the process the West may have sold itself a weapons portfolio which it lacks the means to produce in quantity.
▪ The issue of his failure to sell off stock portfolios is also a nonstarter.
▪ Mr Howell said Phillips and Drew calculated in February that to sell the portfolio would have cost the council £69.1m.
take
▪ Or take a portfolio manager who has worked for a large company with 30 analysts at her beck and call.
▪ It was reported on Dec. 30 that Carlos Vera had been appointed to take over Zambrano's portfolio.
▪ Marge took up a leather portfolio and began shoving things into it.
▪ The first agency I went to sent me to a photographer to have some pictures taken for my portfolio.
▪ It will take on minimum portfolios of £100,000 for discretionary management and £250,000 for advisory.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bankinter has chosen not to take advantage of the new rules and continues to mark its bond portfolio to market prices.
▪ Beacon will acquire 3. 3 million square feet of space, bringing its total portfolio to 10 million square feet.
▪ Financial institutions - which act as intermediaries between lenders and borrowers, and manage their own asset portfolios. 3.
▪ It was reported on Dec. 30 that Carlos Vera had been appointed to take over Zambrano's portfolio.
▪ Professional Portfolio, an individual portfolio.
▪ They offer not only all the finest portfolio available but also accurate advice and help.
▪ What they were building was not an ideal city but prudent investment portfolios.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Portfolio

Portfolio \Port*fol"io\, n. [F. portefeuille; porter to carry + feuille a leaf. See Port to carry, and Folio.]

  1. A portable case for holding loose papers, prints, drawings, etc.

  2. Hence: The office and functions of a minister of state or member of the cabinet; as, to receive the portfolio of war; to resign the portfolio.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
portfolio

1722, porto folio; 1719 as port folio, from Italian portafoglio "a case for carrying loose papers," from porta, imperative of portare "to carry" (see port (n.1)) + foglio "sheet, leaf," from Latin folium (see folio). Meaning "official documents of a state department" is from 1835. A minister without portfolio is one not in charge of a particular department. Meaning "collection of securities held" is from 1930; portfolio investment is from 1955.

Wiktionary
portfolio

n. 1 A case for carrying papers, drawings, photographs, maps and other flat documents. 2 The collection of such documents, especially the works of an artist or photographer. 3 (context politics English) The post and the responsibilities of a cabinet minister or other head of a government department. 4 The group of investments and other assets held by an investor.

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WordNet
portfolio

  1. n. a case for carrying papers or drawings or maps; usually leather

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

  3. the role of the head of a government department; "he holds the portfolio for foreign affairs"

Wikipedia
Portfolio

Portfolio may refer to:

In objects:

  • Portfolio (briefcase), a type of briefcase

In collections:

  • Portfolio (finance), a collection of assets held by an institution or a private individual
  • Artist's portfolio, a sample of an artist's work or a case used to display artwork, photographs etc.
  • Career portfolio, an organized presentation of an individual's education, work samples, and skills
  • Electronic portfolio, a collection of electronic documents
  • IT Portfolio, in IT portfolio management, the portfolio of large classes of items of enterprise Information Technology
  • Patent portfolio, a collection of patents owned by a single entity
  • Project Portfolio, in Project portfolio management, the portfolio of projects in an organization
  • Ministry (government department), the post and responsibilities of a head of a government department

In computing:

  • Atari Portfolio, a palmtop computer
  • Extensis Portfolio, a digital asset manager

In media:

  • Portfolio Magazine, a fine arts magazine published from 1979 to 1983
  • Portfolio (Grace Jones album)
  • Portfolio (Yolandita Monge album)
  • Portfolio.com, a business magazine
  • Portfolio: An Intercontinental Quarterly, a cross-disciplinary literary journal published between 1945 and 1947
  • Alexey Brodovitch's 1949 graphic design magazine Portfolio

In people:

  • Almerindo Portfolio (1877–1966), Businessman, New York City Treasurer
Portfolio (finance)

In finance, a portfolio is a collection of investments held by an investment company, hedge fund, financial institution or individual.

Portfolio (Grace Jones album)

Portfolio is the debut studio album by Grace Jones, released in 1977 by Island Records. It spawned her first big hit, " La Vie en rose".

Portfolio (Yolandita Monge album)

Portfolio is the 19th studio album by Puerto Rican singer Yolandita Monge. It was released in 1990 and it includes the hits "Cantaré", "Sin Amor", and the club hit "Fuiste Un Sueño". Seven out of ten tracks in this album were composed by Venezuelan singer/songwriter Ricardo Montaner. The album's cover picture was taken by late photographer and stylist Raúl Torres and is a black and white picture, hand painted.

The song "Fuiste Un Sueño" was remixed by DJs Pablo Flores and Javier Garza and also became a massive club hit in Puerto Rico and USA. The singer filmed a music video for that song (directed by her brother in law Eric Mamery) and it won many awards for its technical and artistic values. The track "Cantaré" became an anthem due to the AIDS epidemic.

Just when everyone thought that after the success of Vivencias, Yolandita Monge would return with a similar production (an album of strong ballads), the singer surprised everyone with a light, fresh and very musical album. "Portfolio" is perhaps her richest work in musical terms and as far as arrangements are concerned. In "Portfolio" Yolandita seemed reborn, as suggested by its beautiful cover picture.

This album earned Gold status and is currently out of print in all formats. Several hits songs appear in various compilations of the singer.

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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.