underweight definition

underweight

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 lower than that financial market's share of total capitalization (expressed as a percentage of the capitalization of all financial markets). Opposite of overweight.

underweight is in the Banking, Commerce & Finance and Investing subjects.

underweight appears in the definition of the following term: overweight

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