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  • Not diversified; not varied; uniform.

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  • adjective Not diversified.

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  • adjective not diversified

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Examples

  • They encourage heavy, leveraged investments in undiversified assets that perform unexceptionally over time.

    Matthew Yglesias » Command and Control 2009

  • Instead, the PBGC is moving from an "undiversified" portfolio to a much more diversified one that would mitigate risks, he added, noting that the agency was projecting that the new investment policy would have a lower standard deviation than the old.

    CFO.com: Today in Finance 2009

  • The Miami Herald doubled down today on its failure to address the shortcomings of undercapitalized, undiversified newly minted under-regulated Florida home insurance companies.

    Discourse.net: Herald Editorial Page Compounds Errors on Home Insurance 2009

  • Perhaps most daunting, the Fed's purchases of Treasury debt and mortgage-backed securities have effectively turned it into a mammoth investor -- a thoroughly undiversified one.

    Could The Federal Reserve Go Broke? Nicole Hardesty 2011

  • When the company was in a low-growth industry, was undiversified, or faced intense competition from rivals, it actually benefited from having a CEO on an outside board.

    Study Points to Benefits of Outside Board Seats Joe Light 2011

  • What the U.S. mortgage crisis and the European sovereign debt crisis have in common is policies that subsidized certain investments—bad mortgages in the U.S. and the bonds of European countries like Greece—and then compounded the mistake with regulations that forced all the biggest banks into the same undiversified bad investments.

    Financial Regulation: Worse Than a Crime L. Gordon Crovitz 2011

  • But they have no incentive to take stupid undiversified counterparty risk.

    The Fed's Mission Impossible John H. Cochrane 2011

  • This is (partly) the case for diversification - adding a stock adds less risk, as a general proposition, to a diversified portfolio than to an undiversified one.

    Safe Investing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Strengthening weak, undiversified economies is a far wiser policy for promoting both political and economic stability.

    The Global Community 2010

  • Strengthening weak, undiversified economies is a far wiser policy for promoting both political and economic stability.

    The Global Community 2010

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