most recent 30 from http://www.investery.com 2010-07-31T16:35:57Z http://www.investery.com/feeds/tag/portfolio http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://www.investery.com/questions/54/diversified-portfolio-question unknown (yahoo) 2009-10-24T23:27:01Z 2010-07-19T01:22:41Z

<p>Looking at the following diversification strategy for a long term ( 25 years from retirement) :<a href="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&amp;chco=FF3300,66CC33&amp;chd=t:30,5,15,20,15,15&amp;chs=900x300&amp;chl=Domestic%20Equity%28VTSMX%29%2030%|Emerging%20Equity%28VEIEX,EEM%29%205%|Foreign%20Equity%28EFA,VGTSX%29%2015%|REITS%28VGSIX%29%2020%|Bonds%28VFISX,VFITX,VUSTX%29%2015%|Inflation%20Protected%20Securities%28VIPSX%29%2015%&amp;chtt=Ideal%20Target%20Portfolio" rel="nofollow">Portfolio Link</a> </p> <p>What do you think ? <img src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&amp;chco=FF3300,66CC33&amp;chd=t:30,5,15,20,15,15&amp;chs=900x300&amp;chl=Domestic%20Equity%28VTSMX%29%2030%|Emerging%20Equity%28VEIEX,EEM%29%205%|Foreign%20Equity%28EFA,VGTSX%29%2015%|REITS%28VGSIX%29%2020%|Bonds%28VFISX,VFITX,VUSTX%29%2015%|Inflation%20Protected%20Securities%28VIPSX%29%2015%&amp;chtt=Ideal%20Target%20Portfolio" alt="alt text"></p>

http://www.investery.com/questions/87/is-beta-of-a-portfolio-always-meaningful shabbychef 2010-04-25T05:59:25Z 2010-04-25T05:59:25Z

<p>(originally asked at askprotrader.com stack exchange, which is moribund.)</p> <p>Consider the following strategies:</p> <ul> <li>a stat arb strategy with no overnight exposure, but significant market exposure intraday.</li> <li>a market timing model which is always long or short the market.</li> <li>etc</li> </ul> <p>is it meaningful to consider the betas of strategies like these? Or should we ignore beta when the portfolio returns have low (near zero) correlation to market returns? how do you use beta?</p>