As with the moderately complicated portfolio, you gain greater
control over your diversification and get the opportunity to bolster returns through rebalancing, but to an even greater degree.
Seth Klarman makes a point here that is similar to the one he made above: «Concentrating your portfolio in the most compelling opportunities and avoiding
over diversification for its own sake may sometimes lead to short - term underperformance, but eventually it pays off in outperformance.»
Over diversification is also bad for you.
Over diversification is a serious and common mistake that decreases investment returns disproportionately to the benefits received.
Owning every industry is
over diversification and keeps you from owning the best opportunities.
Portfolio diversification is a balance between concentration and
over diversification to optimize risk and potential return.
Under diversification (i.e. owing only stocks, or worse yet just one stock) can be a catastrophic error, but
over diversification is a more common mistake.
You also can unknowingly add to it —
over diversification or mistaken diversification — by owning too much of one thing or too much of everything.
The costs incurred by too much investment diversification are transaction fees and
over diversification.
So while under diversification can be devastating;
over diversification should be avoided too.
Both under diversification and
over diversification are common mistakes made in portfolio management.
Over the last decade mutual funds have generally performed poorly because of high fees and
over diversification.
Indexing and
over diversification are disadvantages of diversification because quality suffers when you own inferior investments along with good investments.
Over diversification is common in ETFs and mutual funds.
OVER DIVERSIFICATION can be a serious mistake.
Great article and nice point on «
over diversification», Ken.
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