15% of Israel Englander’s $240 Billion Millennium Portfolio Sits in Just 10 Stocks

Warren Buffett once said, "Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing." I suspect that one of his fellow billionaires might disagree Israel "Izzy" Englander runs Millennium Management. The hedge fund's portf

Warren Buffett once said, “Diversification is protection against ignorance.

It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.” I suspect that one of his fellow billionaires might disagree

Israel “Izzy” Englander runs Millennium Management. The hedge fund’s portfolio includes a staggering 5,622 holdings. But that large number could be somewhat misleading.

Roughly 15% of Englander’s $240 billion Millennium portfolio is invested in only 10 stocks. Englander’s top 10 Technically, Englander’s largest holding isn’t a stock. Instead, it’s an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that trades like a stock — the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: IVV).

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