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diversification


Equity and Bond Correlations: Higher Than Assumed?

What correlations should we trust? Those based on daily or monthly return data?

Portfolio Diversification: Harder Than It Used to Be?

Ever-greater access to world equity markets should have made it easier for investors to build and harvest the benefits of diversified global stock portfolios. But has it really?

Book Review: Undiversified

The book is highly useful not only to women but also to other groups that are underrepresented in investment management.

Book Review: Beyond Diversification

The range of tools that Sébastien Page, CFA, sets out in this book can help investors make better decisions.

To Invest Internationally, or Not — That Is the Question

We should lean toward investing in all of the world all of the time.

In Memoriam: David Swensen

With David Swensen's passing, the financial community has lost one of the most important investors of modern times.

What Is an Asset Class?

The economy has only a handful of truly fundamental drivers that influence different asset classes.

Diversification: High Dispersion Beats Low Correlation

When advisers talk about diversification their go-to variable is correlation. That's a mistake.

In Practice Summary: Reassessing the Drivers of Commodity Futures Returns

What is the effect on portfolio returns when the commodity futures market as a whole is in backwardation or contango during recessions and during unexpected inflation?