KMI - 5%+ Dividend Yield Portfolio: The Number Of Stocks To Own (Apr 2019 Review)

Musings

More than any single topic, I get a LOT of comments on my articles about ideal portfolio size (the age old ‘concentration vs. diversification’ debate). This is especially true of my extensive ETF holdings (about 50% of my total assets) where I own small pieces of many hundreds of companies. I suppose I’ve always tended to error towards over-diversification since I’ve internalized the ‘wisdom’ that I was taught as an undergraduate finance major about how diversification is the greatest thing since sliced bread. However, my professors also told me the market was efficient and