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DEFINITION of 'Portfolio'. A grouping of financial assets such as stocks, bonds and cash equivalents, as well as their mutual, exchange-traded and closed-fund counterparts.Portfolios are held directly by investors and/or managed by financial professionals.Next Up.hink of an investment portfolio as a pie that is divided into pieces of varying sizes representing a variety of asset classes and/or types of investments to accomplish an appropriate risk-return portfolio allocation.
Consider the bid and ask spread as a percentage of the transaction. If a $20 stock has a spread of 10 cents, the cost of the spread will reduce the return on the trade by 0.05%. For higher priced stocks, the overhead as a precentage of the trade is reduced. A stock trading at $100 with a .10 bid/ask spread has a 0.1% overhead from the bid and ask spread. Not too bad. Now consider penny stocks.