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An investment strategy designed to manage risk. Components of the portfolio...
Dividing the investment into a variety of securities.
The act of not putting all your investments in only one or few assets. Bloopers & Blunders Objective
Investing in negatively correlated securities to avoid excessive exposure to market risk. In general, a portfolio is considered diversified with 15-20 stocks; however, in addition to the number of assets, it is important to include stocks or funds that are not highly correlated.
Keywords:
Unrelated,
Strategy,
Synergies,
Unfamiliar,
Conglomerate
Expanding into related or unrelated products or market segments.
Extends skills or experience from current product or market activities rather than covering totally unfamiliar territory. Customized online searches by reference librarians would extend their current research in print skills.
A strategy in which an organisation introduces itself to products / target markets not previously in its realm of experience.
A growth strategy which involves an organisation to provide new products or services. The new products on offer could be related or unrelated to the organisations core activities.
Keywords:
Nonprofit,
Unduly,
Variety,
Undertaken,
Offset
to produce variety or make diverse
In reference to nonprofit income, this means having a variety of funding types and sources so that an organization is not unduly dependent on a handful of sources.
Holding a variety of securities so an occasional loss in one can be offset by gains in others
To expand a line of products or services by increasing the variety of things produced or of operations undertaken. For nonprofits this often means adding a component to an existing service that provides more value to a customer or client.
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