Lessons in investing

Lesson 8: Why is diversification important?

Diversification simply means spreading your risk: maintaining exposure to as wide a variety of investment opportunities as possible, and avoiding concentrating your choices in too narrow an area. It's one of the fundamental pillars of a well-balanced evidence-based portfolio.

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AcuityINSIGHT: Setting sensible expectations for investment returnsThis issue gives a high level insight into the framework in place used to build a sensible starting point for portfolio expected outcomes, whilst also illustrating the fact that investors don't have the benefit of knowing which future path markets could follow. The financial planning process is a ke

Lessons in investing

Lesson 8: Why is diversification important?

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