Principle of diversification


 

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Principle of diversification

That 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.



Principle of diversification

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Indirect diversification benefits

Indirect diversification benefits

Diversification benefits provided by the multinational corporation that are not available to investors through their portfolio investment.


Unique Diversification Benefit

Unique Diversification Benefit

Reduction in the likelihood of financial distress for a conglomerate firm that comes with its diversified investments.


Currency diversification

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.


Markowitz diversification

Markowitz diversification

A 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.


Diversification cone

Diversification cone

For 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.


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