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Dressing up a portfolio (finance)


Money managers' strategy to make transactions for the sole purpose of making a portfolio look good to the investor near the end of a reporting period.





Slough of Despond, the (oh)



literary
a situation in which you are very unhappy and there seems to be no hope that things will improve. The expression comes from the name of a place in the book ThePilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan.