MY PERFECT STOCK PORTFOLIO - SVEN CARLIN PH.D.

Investing in stocks means you end up with a portfolio as having only one stock is too risky because you never know what might happen. Today, we’ll discuss MY PERFECT PORTFOLIO and 5 things to watch when building a portfolio in 2018! Do you have a good investment portfolio? Do you know what is portfolio management? How to manage your portfolio? Does it allow you to take advantage of the opportunities that might come in today’s finance environment? Is it hedged in a way? I’ll try to answer those questions by showing how I go about portfolio strategy and the 5 key factors to watch when building a portfolio! BEST STOCK PORTFOLIO FOR 2018 We often discuss stocks, news, certain sectors but what is the perfect stock market portfolio in 2018? As I am building a Model Portfolio for my Stock Market Platform, I think a video on how to build a portfolio today would be really good. We don’t talk enough about portfolio management and how would my perfect portfolio look at this point in time! WHAT IS A GREAT PORTFOLIO? A stock portfolio is a combination of various stocks that will lead you to satisfying investment returns no matter what happens in the economy and financial markets. 5 KEY PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT THINGS TO WATCH: Whether you only have a google finance portfolio or an actual money portfolio this exercise will help you understand the risk and reward you’re your stock market investments. 1) VALUE SHOULD BE THE FOCUS OF YOUR PORTFOLIO In an environment of low inflation, sky high stock prices, a long term investor has to keep his focus on value. What will be the things people will use also in a recession and what will be the technologies that will grow no matter what. Having value gives you protection from inflation and in case that stock prices drop you know you can easily buy more. 2) PORTFOLIO VALUATION IS KEY Your long term returns depend on the earnings the stocks you have in your portfolio generate. If you can build a portfolio with better valuations but great assets, you will reach great financial results! Fortunately, there are great investing opportunities if you are willing to look for them. 3) MANAGE THE RISK OF YOUR PORTFOLIO The stock market is usually very volatile, especially if you look at specific sectors. That is why you have to give yourself time to buy and prepare a portfolio. A few years, a healthy economic cycle, some market panics should do the trick. So, what I am doing with my model portfolio will take a bit to set up as it is a process and we have to wait for investment opportunities to come to us. Chasing stocks and buying just because it looks nice in a portfolio, simply increases the risk and lowers long term portfolio returns. 4) MY PERFECT PORTFOLIO EXPOSURE The perfect portfolio exposure depends on volatility and risk and also hedges! It also depends on the risk reward of each position at the current moment so it is really a process through time, real portfolio management. But to give you an idea of how I see this at this moment in time, here it is: GREAT BUSINESSES ACROSS: 20% DEVELOPED markets and global 8% LATAM 8% CHINA 8% ASIA (incl. Russia) 8% HEDGES & GOLD 8% REAL ESTATE 15% COMMODITIES 25% - CASH AND OPPORTUNITIES Want to know more about what I do? https://goo.gl/MQG2k5 Full-time independent stock market analyst and researcher! STOCK MARKET RESEARCH PLATFORM (analysis, stocks to buy, model portfolio) I am also a book author: Modern Value Investing book: https://amzn.to/2lvfH3t More at the Sven Carlin blog: https://svencarlin.com/ Check out Modern Value Investing YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/InvestwithSvenCarlinPhD Like Modern Value Investing Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/CarlinSven Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/svencarlin/