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Bond Ladder

A portfolio strategy that involves constructing a portfolio of individual bonds (or broadly similar types of fixed-income securities/ products such...

Corner Portfolio

A portfolio where a security either enters or leaves the efficient set. In other words, it consists of all securities...

Shortfall Risk

A type of portfolio risk that measures the likelihood that the actual return on the portfolio would drop below a...

Hybrid Collar

A collar strategy which is designed to protect a portfolio from the simultaneous occurrence of a number of negative events....

Risk Parity Portfolio Construction

A portfolio construction strategy and methodology that involves equating the contribution to risk from every group of assets (portfolio) taking...

E-V Maxim

The proposition that an investor should choose the portfolio with the highest expected return for a specific degree of risk....

Expected Return-Variance Maxim

The proposition that an investor should choose the portfolio with the highest expected return for a specific degree of risk....

Screening Variable

A decision variable that an investor uses for screening- i.e., sifting through the broad universe of securities (and any other...

Security Screening

The process of narrowing the exceedingly large universe of investable securities down to a manageable size so that remaining candidates...

Subjective Screening

A type of screening which is subject to a set of investment criteria such as personal preferences or values, societal...