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Writer's pictureMax Teh

Portfolio Allocation Grid: Building a Growth-Oriented Portfolio through a Systematic Approach.

Updated: 5 days ago

Disclaimer: This communication is provided for information purposes only and is not intended as a recommendation or a solicitation to buy, sell or hold any investment product. Readers are solely responsible for their own investment decisions.

 

KEYPOINTS

  • Align Investments with Goals: Clearly define your financial objectives to select stocks that align with your risk tolerance and desired returns.

  • Prioritize Growth and Value: Focus on companies with strong growth potential and reasonable valuations to maximize returns while minimizing risk.

  • Implement a Structured Approach: Utilize a tiered system and regular portfolio reviews to make informed decisions and ensure your investments remain aligned with your goals.

 

In today's dynamic investment landscape, building a growth-oriented portfolio requires a structured approach to identify promising opportunities and manage risk effectively. 

This blog post outlines a systematic framework, incorporating key investment principles and practical tools to help you construct a robust and potentially rewarding portfolio.


Understanding Your Investment Goals

Before diving into specific strategies, it's crucial to define your investment objectives. 

Are you seeking capital appreciation, income generation, or a combination of both? 


Clarifying your goals will guide your decision-making process and help you select investments that align with your financial aspirations.



Establishing a Foundation: Investment Criteria

To build a growth-oriented portfolio, consider the following key criteria:

  1. Growth Potential:  Prioritize companies with strong growth prospects, demonstrated by factors such as revenue growth, Guidance/ Outlook figures and market share expansion.

  2. Valuation:  Evaluate the company's valuation relative to its earnings and future potential.  A reasonable valuation can enhance your investment returns, and buying companies at inflated valuation can be extremely costly for investors.

  3. Fundamentals:  Assess the company's financial health, competitive position and management quality. Strong fundamentals are the backbone of sound investments.

Implementing a Tiered System

To prioritize investments based on these criteria, consider implementing a tiered system.  Assign higher tiers to stocks that exhibit strong growth potential, reasonable valuations, and solid fundamentals. 

Lower tiers on the other hand, for less attractive companies that fail certain benchmarks.


This is how the Portfolio Allocation Grid I am using to help me decide the allocation weightage for the assets in my portfolio will look like.

There are 16 attractiveness ranking in total, with 1 being the most attractive and 16 being the least,

any stocks falling under the ranking marked with ❌ falls are to be avoided.


Hiding all the empty rows and showing only the positions in my portfolio, this is how the table will look like: