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An investor profile or style defines an individual's preferences in investment decisions, for example:[1]
- Short-term trading (active management) or long term holding (buy and hold)
- Risk-averse or risk tolerant / seeker
- All classes of assets or just one (stocks for example)
- Value stock, growth stocks, quality stocks, defensive or cyclical stocks...
- Big cap or small cap (Market capitalization) stocks,
- Use or not of derivatives
- Home turf or international diversification
- Hands on, or via investment funds