Diversification is essential for reducing risk from "summary" of Random Walk Guide To Investing by Burton G Malkiel
Diversification is like having a basket to carry your eggs. If you put all your eggs in one basket and that basket falls, you lose all your eggs. But if you spread your eggs across multiple baskets, the risk of losing all your eggs is significantly reduced. This is the essence of diversification – spreading your investments across different assets to reduce the risk of losing all your money. Imagine you invest in a single company and that company goes bankrupt. You would lose all your investment. However, if you spread your investments across multiple companies, industries, and even countries, the failure of one investment will not have a catastrophic impact on your overall portfolio. Diversification helps to protect you from the unforeseen events that can negatively affect individual investments. Diversification is not about trying to pick the best-performing asset every time. It is about reducing the risk of losing a significant portion of your investment capital. By diversifying, you are essentially ...
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