Chapter 5 of 6
Building a portfolio
Spread your bets, set the prices you'd buy at, and let reinvested dividends compound.
Diversifying across companies, sectors and currencies softens the blow if any one payer stumbles. A watchlist with a target price per stock lets you wait for a fair entry instead of chasing — Quantic flags a stock on your radar when it trades below your target.
Reinvesting dividends (a DRIP) buys more shares automatically, which pay their own dividends — the compounding engine behind long-run dividend growth.
Key terms
- Target price
- The price you'd be happy to buy a watched stock at. Quantic flags it on your radar when the market trades below it.
- Underweight
- A holding that's a smaller slice of your portfolio than you intend — a candidate to top up toward your target mix.
- DRIP
- Dividend reinvestment: automatically using each dividend to buy more shares, compounding your income over time.
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