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- verb Present participle of
underweight .
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Examples
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Symmetrical treatment: Treat technological risks on the same basis as natural risks; avoid underweighting natural risks and overweighting human-technological risks.
The Proactionary Principle, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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But Eric Jacobson , director of fixed-income research at Morningstar who closely tracks Mr. Gross's fund, said the 10% still represents a "massive underweighting" to the sector relative to the benchmark's weighting of 32.98%.
Bearish Bets Dim a Star Min Zeng 2011
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They favor Michael Page and Hays, because of their bigger exposure to emerging markets and recommend underweighting Adecco and Randstad.
Europe's Recruiters Tough to Evaluate Ishaq Siddiqi 2011
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For the record, I happen to think that the CPI systematically undercounts inflation due to underweighting certain components especially medical care and completely avoiding the impact of taxes on spending and costs.
Chris Martenson, Ph.D.: Don't Be Fooled: Inflation Has the Upper Hand Ph.D. Chris Martenson 2010
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Interestingly, a concerned Standard & Poor's recently downgraded its expectations this year for the S&P 500 from 1270 to 1190 (now 2,196), and is recommending an underweighting in equities and an overweighting in cash.
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Many fixed-income assets have been ravaged in recent weeks, and my strategy of keeping maturities short and underweighting fixed income in my portfolio proved sound.
The Vault Line: It's Time to Consider Bank Stocks Again James B. Stewart 2010
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It means, underweighting the things like consumer staples, drugs, and therefore, in a broader sense, health care, utilities, telecom, all of the less economically sensitive things.
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For the record, I happen to think that the CPI systematically undercounts inflation due to underweighting certain components especially medical care and completely avoiding the impact of taxes on spending and costs.
Chris Martenson, Ph.D.: Don't Be Fooled: Inflation Has the Upper Hand Ph.D. Chris Martenson 2010
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For the record, I happen to think that the CPI systematically undercounts inflation due to underweighting certain components especially medical care and completely avoiding the impact of taxes on spending and costs.
Chris Martenson, Ph.D.: Don't Be Fooled: Inflation Has the Upper Hand Ph.D. Chris Martenson 2010
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Over - or underweighting a portfolio to gain exposure that will reduce the downside risk.
Four ETF Strategies For A Down Market Investopedia Hans Wagner 2009
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