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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

A principle of investing stating that a portfolio containing many different assets and kinds of assets carries lower risk than a portfolio with only a few. The principle of diversification states that unsystemic risk may be alleviated through diversification, but systemic risk is more difficult to reduce. That is, the risk associated with a single investment or type of investment may be offset by the risk of another investment or type of investment. See also: Diversification.

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No references found	The principle of diversification is still working to cushion a part of the decline, but not to the same degree that it did five or six or seven years ago," Scudder said. Even Harvard and other elite institutions are feeling pinch as ... by Community College Week This and a few other applications of the principle of diversification are discussed in section II. Kautilya on risk-return trade-off and diversification by Sihag, Balbir S. / Indian Journal of Economics and Business In addition, they understand the principle of diversification as a means to reduce portfolio risk. Alternative investments can enhance portfolio returns and lessen ... by Latin Trade	Principal Market principal meridian Principal Only Principal Order Principal Payments Principal Place of Business principal residence Principal Risk Principal Stockholder principal trade Principal, Interest, Taxes, and Insurance principal, interest, taxes, and insurance payment Principal-agent relationship Principal-Only principal-only securities Principal-Protected Note Principal-Protection Fund Principes comptables generalement reconnus Principio accelerador Principio da combinacao Principio da equivalencia Principios de contabilidad generalmente aceptados Principios de contabilidade geralmente aceitos principle of anticipation principle of balance Principle of Diversification Print Print Advertising Weight Printing Block Printing on the O prior appropriation theory Prior Income Prior Insurance Prior Lien prior period adjustment Prior Preferred Prior Preferred Stock Prior-Lien Bond Prior-Preferred Stock Prioriteitsaandeel priority Priority Foreign Country Priority List Priority of Lien Priority of Tax Lien Prisoner's Dilemma privacy law Private Accountant Private Activity Bond Private Bank Private Banker	Principle Maintenance Inspector Principle of abstraction Principle of Accounts principle of anticipation Principle of Atom Conservation principle of balance Principle of bivalence Principle of bivalence Principle of bivalence Principle of Calorimetry Principle of Calorimetry Principle of Calorimetry Principle of causality Principle of causality Principle of causality Principle of causality Principle of charge conservation principle of coincidence Principle of Competitive Exclusion Principle of conservation of energy Principle of conservation of energy Principle of conservation of energy Principle of conservation of energy Principle of conservation of momentum Principle of conservation of momentum Principle of conservation of momentum Principle of contradiction Principle of corresponding states Principle of covariance principle of dichotomy Principle of Diversification Principle of double effect Principle of duality principle of dynamical similarity Principle of Economy Principle of Economy Principle of Economy Principle of equal a-priori probability principle of equivalence principle of equivalence Principle of Galilean relativity Principle of good enough principle of inaccessibility Principle of inclusion exclusion Principle of inclusion-exclusion Principle of inclusion-exclusion proof Principle of indeterminacy Principle of indeterminacy Principle of indeterminacy Principle of indifference Principle of indifference Principle of indiscernibles Principle of inertia Principle of inertia Principle of inertia Principle of inertia Principle of inertia Principle of inertia (physics) Principle of inertia (physics) Principle of inertia (physics) Principle of inertia (physics)

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The principle of diversification is still working to cushion a part of the decline, but not to the same degree that it did five or six or seven years ago," Scudder said.

Even Harvard and other elite institutions are feeling pinch as ... by Community College Week

This and a few other applications of the principle of diversification are discussed in section II.

Kautilya on risk-return trade-off and diversification by Sihag, Balbir S. / Indian Journal of Economics and Business

In addition, they understand the principle of diversification as a means to reduce portfolio risk.

Alternative investments can enhance portfolio returns and lessen ... by Latin Trade

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