Portfolio Construction

Fundamental Weighting

Definition

What is Fundamental Weighting?

Weighting companies using measures such as sales, cash flow, dividends, or book value.

Example in practice

A fundamentally weighted index gives more weight to firms with larger revenues.

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The complete collection of investments owned by an investor or managed under one mandate.

The process of selecting and combining investments to meet return, risk, liquidity, and time-horizon objectives.

A long-term target mix of asset classes based on an investor's objectives and constraints.

A statistic ranging from minus one to plus one that describes how two return series move together.

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