It is a carrying case for papers, from the French word "porter" meaning to carry and folio, a large size of paper. So, a portfolio was originally a folder for carrying big pieces of paper and it is still used that way to describe a folder that artists use to carry around their work.
It has several extended meanings. It means a collection of investments, probably because originally investors carried around stock certificates in a portfolio. It also means the particular duties assigned to a government minister, as the information on these duties would have been handed to him in a portfolio when he took on the job. A member of the cabinet who does not have a specific area to supervise is called a "minister without portfolio."
Different kinds of stocks in your portfolio.
Dominant Portfolio is part of the efficient frontier in modern porfolio theory. If a portfolio has a higher expected return than another portfolio with the same level of risk, a lower level of expected risk than another portfolio with equal expected return or a higher expected return and lower expected risk than the the portfolio is dominant.
Portfolio accounting is a method of taking all the financial information for someone, and preparing it in a detailed portfolio, or presentation, that shows several what-if scenarios to help ease discomfort.
An art portfolio is a binder without the rings. Also the cover is flimsy and they have plastic things to hold your projects.
student folder
i made a portfolio at the Church.
an artist should have a portfolio
a portfolio is like a book or binder of any kind but it is more expensive and more designed in several ways. they use the word portfolio as a more fancy way to say book or binder.
The root word of "portfolio" is "portare," which is a Latin word that means "to carry."
Yes, the word 'portfolio' is a noun; a word for a case for carrying papers or drawings; the stocks and bonds held by an investor or a firm; a word for a thing.
The beta of a portfolio is the weighted average of individual betas of assets in that portfolio. There is an example of portfolio beta calculation here: http://www.riskyreturn.com/portfolio_beta.html
Portfolio.
album portfolio
Grab my portfolio, too.
Different kinds of stocks in your portfolio.
cartera, carpeta (the object) ministerio (figurative)
My portfolio contains several of my paintings.