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Liquidity diversificationInvesting in a variety of maturities to reduce the price risk to which holding long bonds exposes the investor.Liquidity diversification Similar MatchesDiversificationDiversificationInvestment 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'. Currency diversificationCurrency diversificationUsing 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. Principle of diversificationPrinciple of diversificationThat portfolios of different sorts of assets differently correlated with one another will have negligible unsystematic risk. In other words, unsystematic risks disappear in diversified portfolios, and only systematic risks persist, those related to particular assets. Diversification coneDiversification coneFor given prices in the Heckscher-Ohlin Model, a set of factor endowment combinations that are consistent with producing the same set of goods and having the same factor prices. Such a set has the form of a cone. Markowitz diversificationMarkowitz diversificationA strategy that seeks to combine in a portfolio assets with returns that are less than perfectly positively correlated, in an effort to lower portfolio risk (variance) without sacrificing return. Related: Naive diversification. Further SuggestionsIndirect diversification benefitsInternational diversification Diversification Efficient diversification Naive diversification Unique Diversification Benefit Sector diversification Cone of diversification |
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