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overdiversification

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  • These funds have a poor track record because of overdiversification.

    MORE WEALTH WITHOUT RISK CHARLES J. GIVENS 1995

  • These funds have a poor track record because of overdiversification.

    MORE WEALTH WITHOUT RISK CHARLES J. GIVENS 1995

  • One major mistake made by most investors, often on the advice of a novice investment salesman, is overdiversification: dividing investment capital among stocks, bonds, government securities, and money market funds.

    MORE WEALTH WITHOUT RISK CHARLES J. GIVENS 1995

  • One major mistake made by most investors, often on the advice of a novice investment salesman, is overdiversification: dividing investment capital among stocks, bonds, government securities, and money market funds.

    MORE WEALTH WITHOUT RISK CHARLES J. GIVENS 1995

  • Is “overdiversification”—an extension error—a possibility for Rubbermaid?

    Fit, Failure, and the Hall of Fame Raymond E. Miles 1994

  • With too many choices, many investors are collecting mutual funds and ETFs like baseball cards, with many new purchases either creating expensive overdiversification or replicating existing holdings.

    Thestar.com - Home Page 2011

  • This sounds like a bad case of overdiversification.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed JOHN HEINZL 2011

  • According to Investor's Business Daily, the problem with overdiversification is that there is

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

  • You may already be familiar with Charlie Munger's disdain for overdiversification; he'd rather have his money in a small handful of stocks, allocating not a single penny to any second-tier idea.

    The Money Times - finance news, lifestyle, markets, investment, personal finance, banking, retirement planning Rex Moore 2009

  • You may already be familiar with Charlie Munger's disdain for overdiversification; he'd rather have his money in a small handful of stocks and would allocate not a single penny to any second-tier idea.

    Fool.com: The Motley Fool 2009

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  • I can't remember how I got here. Did I happen upon a grumly pool of underdiversification and look up?

    March 17, 2009

  • Underdiversification = not having a McDonald's in Iceland

    Overdiversification = a McDonald's in Iceland

    November 7, 2009

  • Diversification and McDonald's do not belong in the same sentence.

    November 7, 2009

  • methinks you missed my point kind sir — mickey dees just pulled outta Iceland

    November 7, 2009

  • Oooh, yes, I remember reading that.

    I just like saying, 'Diversification and McDonald's do not belong in the same sentence.' :-)

    November 7, 2009

  • But...you just put them there.

    *confused*

    November 8, 2009