underweight

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of an inappropriately or unusually low weight.

   • He's so underweight he's had to buy smaller clothes.
   • He's thirty pounds underweight.
   • The market trader was fined for selling underweight bags of fruit.
2. 2

   Not too heavy for an intended purpose.

   • The suitcase is just slightly underweight; I'll let it on the plane.
3. 3

   Being less invested in a particular area than market wisdom suggests.

   • The fund is underweight in mining.
   • 2011, Murdoch, S. Foreigners back for Aussie stocks, The Australian "It's a long-run trend of foreign investors -- typically being underweight the banking sector in Australia," Mr Baker said.
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   1. 4

      The state or quality of being underweight.

   2. 5

      An underweight person.

   3. 6

      An underweight investment.

      • Further, structured managers usually attempt to hit their lower targets by relying on a relatively large number of small active deviations (i.e., overweights and underweights).
      • Consider a conventional long-only portfolio with underweights on holdings the investment manager does not like and overweights on holdings the manager does like.
   4. 7

      To underestimate the weight of.

   5. 8

      To give insufficient weight to (a consideration)

      To give insufficient weight to (a consideration); to underestimate the importance of.

   6. 9

      To invest in less than conventional wisdom would dictate.

      • Although the portfolio overweights the German market, it underweights German marks.

The neighborhood

• antonymoverweightantonym(s) of “of low weight”