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Diversification
The practice of spreading investment funds among various asset classes, which behave differently from one another over time. It is the financial equivalent of the old saying: “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” Harry Markowitz pioneered the concept with Modern Portfolio Theory in the 1950s. In short, diversification allows you to reduce your overall risk more than your return, and has been called “the only free lunch in investing.”
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