Portfolio literally means "a case for carrying loose papers," (from Latin, the imperative of portare "to carry" and the plural of folium, meaning a ’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
• Portfolio career 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 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
  
  See also
• Port Folio (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing "Portfolio"