portfolio
noun
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Portfolio is partly based on the Latin folium, meaning "leaf, sheet". A portfolio usually represents a portable showcase of your talents. Today actual portfolios are used less than they used to be by artists, since most commercial artists have a website dedicated to showing off their art. But portfolio in its other common meaning is extremely common. Not so long ago, a broker would keep each of his or her clients' investments in a separate notebook or portfolio. Today the investment portfolio, like an artist's portfolio, usually takes the form of a Web page, even though everyone still uses the same old word.
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Michael Schneider, Variety, 10 Apr. 2024
The spat over the small parcel in Miami-Dade’s real estate portfolio touches on the sensitive topic of how changes to public space sometimes impose on private property owners, and what right residents have to complain about a recreational use next door.
—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2024
Shares of closed-end funds may trade above (a premium) or below (a discount) the NAV of the fund's portfolio.
—Charlotte Observer, 8 Apr. 2024
About 9% of WEC Energy Group's generating portfolio is comprised of wind, solar and hydro power.
—Karl Ebert, Journal Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2024
In an analysis of affordable housing developments financed with the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit in the Enterprise Community Partners’ California investment portfolio, insurance costs increased 56% from 2020 to 2022.
—Nikki Beasley, The Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2024
Also in her portfolio is a four-bedroom Nashville complex with an adjacent guest house, as well as a seven-bedroom home in LA.
—Byeleanor Pringle, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2024
Our goal is to expand and strengthen our portfolio of successful businesses.
—Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2024
Jeff Bezos is reportedly scooping up another multimillion-dollar property in the Sunshine State, expanding the Amazon founder’s expensive portfolio.
—William Gavin, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2024
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“Portfolio.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/portfolio. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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