I doubt that any registered financial adviser would suggest to a client that they invest their whole retirement portfolio in futures on a single commodity -- say copper.
Other benefits of the portfolio included the view that a portfolio would prepare the students for when they came to use portfolios in future (when working as a doctor) and that they could use the portfolio as a useful record of non-academic achievements such as extra-curricular activities.
The gap in price can pit regulators, who see their job as protecting consumers from unreasonable rates, against renewable energy developers and utility companies, many of which are willing to pay higher prices now to ensure a broader energy portfolio in the future.
Or look at Berkshire-Hathaway, which already owns Geico and could add a complementary health insurance product to its portfolio in the future.
This is exactly what the World Bank should be doing with its energy portfolio in the future.
The growing use of portfolios in postgraduate and continuing education, and reports that a reflective portfolio increased undergraduate students' self-confidence in their ability to complete a portfolio in the future [ 16, 17], suggests that we should introduce students to learning portfolios during undergraduate training.
Firstly, students have reported that using a portfolio as an undergraduate increased their confidence to use a portfolio in the future [ 6], and we hypothesised that being accustomed to the ePortfolio and its assessments from early on would ease the stressful transition into the Foundation Programme.
Karniol-Tambour believes that Asia in general, and China in particular, should play a more prominent role in investment portfolios in the future.
So they raced to show off their global "macro" bona fides and that they grokked and were protected from the mega forces that might slam their portfolios in the future.
Planners and regulators should not drive blind with outdated forecasts, but should consider how current and likely low prices will affect their resource portfolio in the near future, and use market-based solicitations like reverse-auctions to integrate the latest pricing drops into their decisions.
