A diversified portfolio should be diversified at two levels:
between asset categories and within asset categories.
Not exact matches
Asset Allocation means how should you divide your money between various asset categories or classes such as equity, bonds, real estate, gold and
Asset Allocation means how should you divide your money
between various
asset categories or classes such as equity, bonds, real estate, gold and
asset categories or classes such as equity, bonds, real estate, gold and cash.
Those decisions may be limited to things like choosing a mutual fund or allocating
assets between categories.
This pattern repeated
between other quintiles though the differentials were smaller, but in all cases, funds with lower expenses within a particular
asset category outperformed the funds with higher expenses.
Modern Portfolio Theory postulates that the key to achieving an efficient portfolio is diversification
between non-correlated (or negatively - correlated)
assets classes — broad
categories of investments that share few similarities in their performance.