Portfolio Quotes

You've got a lot of factors here all coming into play... Oil is having a negative impact and the pre-announcement news from Viacom was significant. You also had all the banks reporting strong earnings yesterday, but yet they're selling them off two days in a row, and we're near the end of the quarter and you've got portfolio managers wanting to cash out of the rally's recent leaders. - Tim Heekin

You're dealing with a seasonal period that's less favorable for markets and you're also dealing with end of quarter portfolio issues. - Jeffrey Hirsch

You really must look at your entire portfolio and not look just at the past quarter or even the last year. Extraordinary expectations have been built into fund performance for almost six years now. You've witnessed returns of 20 percent or more in most stock equity funds, but in some cases they're just not sustainable. - Burton Greenwald

You need as much balance in your portfolio as possible. - Joe Battipaglia

You need a big portfolio to make it work. - Larry Johnson

You have to be ... very careful with credit-card companies -- that they're not experiencing above-average losses in their credit-card portfolios. Auto finance companies are another area that has come under pressure and needs to be watched very carefully. - James McDermott

You fantasize about a man with a Park Avenue apartment and a nice big stock portfolio...For me, it's a fireman with a nice big hose. [Samantha] - Sex And The City

You could have a multi-million-dollar portfolio and still have a strong argument to have some funds. - Mark Balasa

You could buy a stock in Europe and the market could be closed for three or four days during the Christmas holiday, and you could see your portfolio value go down because the currency market moves. - Jarrett Lilien

You can use allocations or strategies that will seem unproductive or even excessively volatile, but when you put them in the context of a larger portfolio, they play a smoothing role. - Tony Werley