Strategy Beginner: The Importance of Diversification

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Financial advisors suggest diversifying because putting your money into different investments is often the best way to avoid losing large sums of money.
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True. Diversifying spreads risk among several investments.
2.
Diversifying across industries can reduce risk.
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True. Problems that befall one industry may not befall others.
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Why does diversifying across different classes of assets help reduce risk?
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Different classes of assets respond differently to economic events. Each type of asset (stocks, bonds, cash, real estate, etc.) has its own risks that may not exist for other types of assets.
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What are the two most basic types of risk?
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Systematic and unsystematic. All other types of risk fall into these two categories.
5.
Risk tolerance is the amount of risk with which you are comfortable.
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True. It determines your choices of investments, among many other things.
6.
Which of the following can reduce volatility in investing?
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Negative correlation of securities. A fall in one type of security can be offset by a rise in another.
7.
An investor can diversify by investing in different regions of the world.
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True. One can diversify in many ways. Choosing different regions is one way.