What is 'Overweight'. Overweight is a situation where an investment portfolio holds an excess amount of a particular security when compared to the security's weight in the underlying benchmark portfolio. Actively managed portfolios will make a security overweight when doing so allows the portfolio to achieve excess returns.
The Sinking of the Titanic, 1912. Printer Friendly Version >>>. On April 10, 1912, the Titanic, largest ship afloat, left Southampton, England on her maiden voyage to New York City. The White Star Line had spared no expense in assuring her luxury.
The Titanic was a large (the largest of its kind at the time)  luxury ocean liner that many at the time thought to be  unsinkable. The ship struck an iceberg on the night â¦of April 14,  1912. It broke in two and sunk to the bottom of the ocean, where it  remains today. 1,514 people died in the sinking.