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When his mammalian meal was sadly limited or difficult to capture some days, he would have to diversify his diet, attempting to track down birds, snakes, lizards, and especially in the fall and winter months even complement his normal intake with a few fruit and vegetables
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worked with his father to diversify the
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Diversify your customers: A business that relies on a larger number of customers is
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Companies that do not diversify and
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It was around this time that Johnny began to diversify
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By the end of the first year, the six had started to diversify their skills, Rachel was clearly the leader, the strategist and tactician
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diversify but absorb the costs in their current workings
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Instead, the super affiliate will diversify their operating strategies to include affiliate opportunities that provide a quick turnaround while still devoting time to nurturing one that will require more time but will ultimately yield big results
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In that way he planned to diversify the production of an enterprise he considered his own, because his brother showed no signs of returning after the rains had passed and a whole summer had gone by with no news of him
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But now that card companies are diversifying, rebates may now come in the form of gift certificates and discount coupons
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for operating leverage are traditionally high, diversifying the firm with acquisitions that
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investor needs to “diversify” his or her analysis and assume a “balanced approach” by
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modern portfolio theory, the combination of securities that will diversify away risk and
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acquisitions that would diversify its operations
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have been offset by diversifying the processes, although firms still attempt to diversify sales within a narrower framework, a “niche”
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longevity; contingency planning will help diversify a firm’s actions and lowers its overall
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balance risk and diversify operations, will expand the customer base, and create a
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In a third economy, diversifying operations and lowering operating
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is encouraged to “diversify” indicators and use many different types
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analysis) to diversify away its major premise - that the population is considered “normal”,
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have other corroborating measurements that diversify and validate the analysis
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One effective way is to diversify his funds to different investments like real estate, stocks and money instruments like bonds and trust funds
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I went to Denver to convince the CEO that rural tourism would be an excellent means of diversifying his investments and that he should start in Wishful
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When I was alone and quite unhappy, I used to see her more often, but now I’ve decided to diversify a bit…’
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recovered, diversifying from a single line that survived the
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During the Cretaceous, insects began to diversify,
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It is said that when the victims of these magicians do not fall into committing sins, then they diversify the malicious and cunning wiles that they use against these victims, until they fall into sin because of one of these other methods
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aquarium club meetings in the hopes of diversifying their sand beds
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liberalization to diversify owner structures in 1998
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diversifying revenue streams, increasing the mix of non-interest income and also
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He wanted her to understand that she needed to diversify her
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See how easy it is to diversify, even without a product to sell?
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why you should diversify -‐ unless you
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In most cases, people without adequate training will start losing as opposed to gaining but there are techniques such as diversifying and increasing the product range that will help the business in its future
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First, you should diversify your investments in your 401(k) simply for safety and lower risk
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to diversify them with incidents, that give reality to the picture, and take a hold upon the mind of a reader of taste, from which they can never be loosened
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To diversify TOMIC’s portfolio, a good idea is to have at least five sectors represented
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One of the best ways to manage risk is to diversify
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This strategy applies on a number of levels: both diversification among asset classes, such as bonds, stocks, and commodities; and diversification within an asset class, such as diversifying commodity holdings among energy and metals
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Diversify should mean spreading yourself over sectors too
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Why You Should Diversify
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Plan to diversify, both over time and position
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The investor may endeavor to attain this end by diversifying his holdings, but as a practical matter, he cannot approach the division of risk attained by an insurance company
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The investor may endeavor to attain this end by diversifying his holdings, but as a practical matter he cannot approach the division of risk attained by an insurance company
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, to permit unified and economical operations of separate units, to diversify investment and risk and to gain certain technical advantages of flexibility and convenience
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Most of this stock is sold for the account of the controlling interests to enable them to cash in on a favorable market and to diversify their own finances
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Finally, a fund can offer excellent value even if it doesn’t beat the market—by providing an economical way to diversify your holdings and by freeing up your time for all the other things you would rather be doing than picking your own stocks
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If one could select the best stocks unerringly, one would only lose by diversifying
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This is a consequence of what might be called a mania of corporations to diversify their activities through various types of acquisitions, etc
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You can best shield yourself against loss not by buying one of these quirky contraptions, but by intelligently diversifying your entire portfolio across cash, bonds, and U
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The low market prices, in turn, attract the attention of companies interested in diversifying their operations—and these are now legion
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But for the typical fund manager or individual investor, not diversifying is foolish, since it is so difficult to select a limited number of stocks that will include most winners and exclude most losers
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Quite frankly, when you reach a point that your portfolio has grown so large that you become more and possibly too conservative, wanting to diversify and reduce risk, it can become counterproductive to your trading
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When you realize at that point that your portfolio and investing goals may have transitioned or changed, I strongly suggest reducing the portfolio dollar size and perhaps putting some with professional money managers or mutual funds for your longer-term retirement or even further diversifying in real estate or high-income instruments
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Looking at the following failed patterns will remind us why we must always use stop-loss orders and diversify our trades
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Because, as the theory holds, it is possible to diversify away the risks of holding only one or a few securities, investors will not be rewarded for those risks that they assume in running narrow portfolios
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I decided to diversify into TYP even though I was most bearish on the financials given the fundamental backdrop of the United States economy at the time, but I did not want to be too heavy in any one triple-leveraged ETF
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Conversely, for market participants following a fundamental finance approach, whether the investor should concentrate or diversify will depend on:
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Outside investors know that the money managers cannot steal, cannot be involved in self-dealing, are limited in causing the fund to borrow money, fees charged are controlled, and the mutual fund must diversify as a practical matter
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Whether a value investor ought to concentrate or diversify depends on how much knowledge, control, outside (preferably nonrecourse) finance, and bargain pricing the investor can obtain
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Certainly, followers of the EMH ought to diversify
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Following is an investor matrix describing, in general terms, groups and individuals that should concentrate (top) to those (bottom) that should diversify:
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Although it may be wise to diversify where an investor lacks know-who, there is no logical course but to concentrate in areas where the investor has know-who
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That is the major problem with diversification—most investors overdiversify, assuming the risk will be lower and returns will not suffer; this is a misunderstanding
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There are endless studies going back to Burton Makiel’s Random Walk Down Wall Street that discuss how many stocks are needed to diversify a portfolio
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Any stocks above and beyond the 15 will not significantly lower risk, and they are therefore not needed to further diversify a portfolio
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What I mean by that is to concentrate on the sectors of the market that are outperforming, and at the same time diversify across the same sectors
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Says Koza, “A lot of these companies, they didn’t diversify
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• Diversify but don’t overdo it
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In trading, it’s the same thing; in addition to placing stops and diversifying (when appropriate)
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You should also consider diversifying across different sectors for the same reason
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That is why I advise you to diversify if you are going with a longer holding period
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There are only a few options you can use to help you decrease your risk: hedge or sell when appropriate, know your investment intimately, hold cash, invest in the “risk-free” rate, diversify to a certain extent, and of course invest with a margin of safety
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This is the entire reason why we focus on our best ideas while diversifying appropriately
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There’s no point diversifying across all the horses – including the lame mares – at the beginning of the race; and if you know anything at all about horse racing, you’ll know that placing a bet on every single horse in a race assures you a net profit of zero (or worse)
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So instead of buying all the stocks individually, or trying to pick the next highflyer, you can diversify and own a piece of all 500 top stocks simply by investing in a low-cost index fund that tracks or mimics the index
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In the pages ahead, you will learn from the “market masters” how to “smooth out the ride” by investing in and diversifying across multiple different indexes
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After all, who wants to buy an old low-interest-rate bond when a shiny new bond with a higher interest rate comes on the market? But one way to avoid worrying so much about price fluctuations in bonds is to diversify and buy into a low-cost bond index fund
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Okay, now you know the players that belong in your allocation buckets, and you know the key to building a winning team: diversify, diversify, diversify! But there’s more
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You not only have to diversify between your Security and your Risk/Growth Buckets, but within them as well
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As Burton Malkiel shared with me, you should “diversify across securities, across asset classes, across markets—and across time
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(We’ll talk about diversifying across time in chapter 4
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Does this change your view as to what it means to be diversified? I sure hope so! Most people try to protect themselves by diversifying the amount of money they put into certain investment assets
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That’s why you diversify
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In the late ’90s, people said, “Why did you take all this trouble to diversify your portfolio? All you needed to do was own the S&P 500
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Number two would be, diversify
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And be sure and diversify through low-cost index funds
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Have you decided what percentage belongs in your Security Bucket and what specific types of investment you’ll use to be safe and still maximize returns? Are you diversifying with different types of investments within the Security Bucket? Have you decided what percentage of your savings or investment capital will go in the Security Bucket?
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In other words, by diversifying your investments across different asset classes (like stocks and bonds, or, better yet, stock funds and bond funds), you could control the risk in your portfolio—and therefore control how much money, on average, you’d lose due to volatility
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It is important to diversify within stocks, but it’s even more important to allocate across the different asset classes—like stocks and bonds
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This is called diversifying, and it essentially means digging in to each asset class—stocks and bonds—and investing in all their subcategories
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Lifecycle funds are simple funds that automatically diversify your investments for you based on age
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To illustrate how to allocate and diversify your portfolio, we’re going to use David Swensen’s recommendation as a model
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Analyzing, and allocating to, asset classes has been the dominant approach but I argue that studying investments from perspectives other than asset classes can enhance our understanding of return sources and our ability to diversify effectively
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It is much harder to diversify away the directional equity market risk, as safe haven assets tend to be either costly or unstable
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Hedging poorly rewarded FX risk, avoiding the longest duration bonds, and diversifying across countries may give bonds a long-run SR similar to that of equities, 0
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Diversifying across several countries, hedging away volatile currency risk, and holding intermediate-duration rather than long-duration bonds all help reduce volatility
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These SRs could have been boosted further by diversifying each style into other asset classes; but incorporating trading costs would have reduced the SRs
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However, this naive comparison ignores important considerations such as Treasuries’ superior liquidity and better recession-hedging and equity-diversifying abilities
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In 2008—the quintessential bad times—most (but not all) alternatives failed both to diversify and to enhance returns
