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Diversification

Spreading investments across many assets to reduce risk.

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"The only free lunch in investing" — combining uncorrelated assets reduces portfolio volatility without proportionally reducing expected return. Diversify across asset classes, sectors, geographies, and time. Limits: in crises, correlations rise — "all assets fall together."

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