Portfolio
Portfolio ( /pɔərtˈfoʊli.oʊ/) literally means "a case for carrying loose papers," (from Latin, the imperative of portare "to carry" and the plural of folium, meaning 'a sheet for writing upon').
From about 1930 it has also come to mean a "collection of securities or responsibilities held by an individual" and so may refer to:
- A type of briefcase
- Portfolio (government), the post and responsibilities of a head of a government department
- Portfolio (finance), a collection of investments held by an institution or a private individual
- Career portfolio, an organized presentation of an individual's education, work samples, and skills
- Almerindo Portfolio (1877–1966), Businessman, New York City Treasurer
- Business networking a philosophy of working for several diverse projects directly rather than earning a salary from a regular employer.
- Artist's portfolio, a sample of an artist's work or a case used to display artwork, photographs etc.
- Electronic portfolio, a collection of electronic documents
- Patent portfolio, a collection of patents owned by a single entity
- Product portfolio (business administration), 2D separation of products by their market share and profits or growth rates
- IT Portfolio, in IT portfolio management, the portfolio of large classes of items of enterprise Information Technology (IT)
- Project Portfolio, in Project portfolio management, the portfolio of projects in an organization
- Portfolio: An Intercontinental Quarterly, a cross-disciplinary literary journal published between 1945 and 1947
- Atari Portfolio, a palmtop computer
- Extensis Portfolio, a digital asset manager
- Portfolio.com, a business magazine
- electronic portfolio, a portfolio that has been prepared for distribution online
- Portfolio (Grace Jones album)
- Portfolio (Yolandita Monge album)
- Minister without portfolio
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