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Currency diversification

Using more than one currency as an investing or financing strategy. Exposure to a diversified currency portfolio typically entails less exchange rate risk than if all the portfolio exposure were in a single foreign currency.



Currency diversification

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Diversification

Diversification

Dividing investment funds among a variety of securities with different risk, reward, and correlation statistics so as to minimize unsystematic risk.


Diversification

Diversification

Investment jargon for not keeping all your eggs in one basket. Diversification implies that you distribute your capital among various assets to reduce loss if, through bad luck or judgement, one of them fails you.There are four main areas of risk to think about.Asset allocation: spreading your investments among different classes of asset (bonds, equities, property etc)Shares: spreading your stock investments over a sufficient number of shares (or invest in a diversified collective fund)Sectors: making sure the shares you invest in are in companies operating in a variety of sectorsCountries: getting some exposure to economies outside the UK as well as in the UKMost people agree that diversification is essential to reduce risk. There is an argument that to make exceptional returns, you have to concentrate your investments - the big winners theory. 'Put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket very closely'.


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The organizing principle of modern portfolio theory, which maintains that any risk-averse investor will search for the highest expected return for any particular level of portfolio risk.


International diversification

International diversification

The attempt to reduce risk by investing in more than one nation. By diversifying across nations whose economic cycles are not perfectly correlated, investors can typically reduce the variability of their returns.


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