Five Essential Themes for Your Portfolio in 2010
By Ken Faulkenberry
Here are five themes with strategic advantages driven by supply and demand. Each of these themes has the potential to provide a superior return on investment that transforms your portfolio from average to extraordinary:
ENERGY – Whether we are talking about oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear energy, or new green energy, we will probably need it all. We already use all the energy we produce worldwide. The tremendous growth expected in the standard of living of the emerging markets, in addition to worldwide increase in population, will force us to find more ways to produce and deliver energy to an energy starved world.
INFRASTRUCTURE – No state or nation is able to thrive without the infrastructure to support growing economies and populations. Airports, railroads, highways, communications, etc. are all needed to move people, products, and information efficiently. Developed countries have old and neglected infrastructure needs. Emerging markets have unending needs for new infrastructure.
FOOD/NUTRITION- As third world nations develop they require more and higher quality food. This process is already under way. Add world population growth and you have ever increasing demand for good nutrition and quality food for decades to come.
DEFENSE/TERRORISM/WAR – We live in a dangerous world. Trends that include an increasing number of fanatics willing to kill innocent people will require technology and diligence to defeat. Add to the fact that as we have become more global and mobile we have needed more resources to keep the peace, not less.
HEALTH/ENVIRONMENT – This might be the most rewarding and riskiest investment of the five. Due to population growth in the developing markets, higher standards of living being demanded by emerging countries, and the aging of the developed nations (particularly the U.S. and Japan); the demand for health care and need for environmental services are expanding rapidly and possibly outstripping any other area. The growing risk is the trend toward government which socializes the industry and creates rationing instead of a free market that innovates and grows to meet expanding needs. Therefore, one must be extra careful when investing in this area.
Each of these five themes have the potential to provide extraordinary investment returns because the demand created by the global market place will require these needs be met. If you have demand that outstrips supply; the return on investing in that product or service will have to be higher than average to attract investors into investing and meeting that need.
Choosing individual investments that take advantage of global trends and placing them in a properly diversified portfolio takes knowledge and many hours of research. Many investors want to stay in control of their money and manage their own investment but choose to hire an outside service such as www.ArborInvestmentPlanner.com to follow a model portfolio and specific buy and sell instructions. This allows an investor to maintain a properly asset allocated portfolio and make their own decisions, but have the research done for them.
