overweight definition

overweight

Situation where the share of a portfolio's investments in a particular financial market (expressed as a percentage of the portfolio's total investments in all financial markets) is proportionately higher than that financial market's share of total capitalization (expressed as a percentage of the capitalization of all financial markets). Opposite of underweight.

overweight is in the Investing and Securities & Futures Trading subjects.

overweight appears in the definition of the following term: underweight

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