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Portfolio management aims to maximize investor wealth by selecting the optimal portfolio and increasing return on investment.
Fremont, CA: Portfolio management is the process of assembling and managing a suitable financial portfolio. Choosing a proper combination of assets depending on the investor's financial goals and risk tolerance is both an art and a science. Therefore, portfolio management is often known as "asset management" or "wealth management."
Portfolio management maximizes investor wealth by selecting the optimal portfolio and increasing return on investment. Portfolio refers to the many investment possibilities used to generate income, such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds, shares, FDs, and cash equivalents.
Portfolio management helps to maximize returns while minimizing risk over a specified period. Before adding a possible investment to the portfolio, it does a SWOT analysis. Portfolio management may be divided into four types: active, passive, discretionary, and non-discretionary.
• Makes the best investment decision
Portfolio management is a technique that helps investors choose the right asset portfolio. It allows users to make better-informed decisions regarding investment methods that align with their goals and objectives.
• Returns are maximized
One of the most essential tasks of portfolio investing is to maximize returns. It provides a systematic structure for performing assessments and determining the best asset class. Investors can earn huge returns with a small investment.
• Prevents a disaster
Portfolio management prevents the disaster that occurs when investors take excessive risks. It advocates diversifying one's portfolio instead of investing primarily in one asset type. If an investor exclusively invests in one form of security and fails, he would incur huge losses that could have got avoided if he had diversified his money over various assets.
• Keep track of your progress
Portfolio management assists management keeps track of the performance of their investment portfolio. As a result, the consolidated investment of a portfolio may get analyzed more fully, and any flaws can be found more easily.
• Liquidity is managed
Portfolio management allows investors to organize their investments in a systematic manner. Investors can choose assets such that they can rapidly sell some of them when they need cash.
• Reduces the chances of danger
Investing in securities is particularly risky due to the volatility of the security market, which increases the chance of loss. Portfolio management assists in risk reduction by spreading risk among large groups of individuals.
• Improves financial understanding
It helps investors improve their financial comprehension. For example, while managing their portfolio, they came across numerous financial concepts and understood how a financial market works, which would increase their overall financial grasp.