diversification of risks

  • 1Diversification (marketing strategy) — Diversification is a form of corporate strategy for a company. It seeks to increase profitability through greater sales volume obtained from new products and new markets. Diversification can occur either at the business unit level or at the… …

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  • 2Diversification (finance) — Finance Financial markets Bond market …

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  • 3diversification — 1. The holding of a *portfolio of varied investments to spread and thereby reduce *risk. See *portfolio theory. 2. An increase in the range and variety of operations undertaken by an organization or an individual. *Multinational corporations tend …

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  • 4Diversification Acquisition — A corporate action in which a company purchases a controlling interest in another company in order to expand its product and service offerings. One way to determine if a takeover is a diversification acquisition is if the two companies have… …

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  • 5principle of diversification — That portfolios of different sorts of assets differently correlated with one another will have negligible unsystematic risk. In other words, unsystematic risks disappear in diversified ( diversification) portfolios, and only systematic risks… …

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  • 6Principal of diversification — Highly diversified portfolios will have negligible unsystematic risk. In other words, unsystematic risks disappear in portfolios, and only systematic risks survive. The New York Times Financial Glossary …

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  • 7Modern portfolio theory — Portfolio analysis redirects here. For theorems about the mean variance efficient frontier, see Mutual fund separation theorem. For non mean variance portfolio analysis, see Marginal conditional stochastic dominance. Modern portfolio theory (MPT) …

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  • 8Catastrophe Bond - CAT — A high yield debt instrument that is usually insurance linked and meant to raise money in case of a catastrophe such as a hurricane or earthquake. It has a special condition that states that if the issuer (insurance or reinsurance company)… …

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  • 9Hedge fund — A hedge fund is a private investment fund open to a limited range of investors which is permitted by regulators to undertake a wider range of activities than other investment funds and which pays a performance fee to its investment manager.… …

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  • 10Life Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Zoology       In 2008 several zoological studies provided new insights into how species life history traits (such as the timing of reproduction or the length of life of adult individuals) are derived in part as responses to… …

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