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1. Diversification
   [marketing strategy] Diversification is a form of corporate strategy for a company. It seeks to increase profitability through greater sales volume obtained from new products and new markets. Diversification can occur either at the business unit level or at the corporate level. At the busine...
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2. Diversification
   [finance] In finance, diversification means reducing risk by investing in a variety of assets. If the asset values do not move up and down in perfect synchrony, a diversified portfolio will have less risk than the weighted average risk of its constituent assets, and often less risk than the ...
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3. Diversification
   Dividing investment funds among a variety of securities with different risk, reward, and correlation statistics so as to minimize unsystematic risk.
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4. Diversification
   A firm increasing the range of products it produces.
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5. Diversification
   to spread investment over several enterprises
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6. Diversification
   To spread investment over several enterprises or products
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7. Diversification
   An increase in the variety of goods and services produced by an individual enterprise or conglomerate. It may be encouraged, either by business owners or by governments, in order to reduce the risk of relying on a narrow range of products.
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8. Diversification
   The spreading of investment funds among classes of securities and localities in order to distribute and control risk. This is a fundamental law of investment meaning simply: 'don`t put all your eggs in one basket'.
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9. Diversification
   A term used to describe the spreading of risk by investing in a number of different companies and assets. Doing so will mean that you won't have all of your eggs in one basket.
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10. Diversification
    Risk reduction achieved by spreading investment across a range of assets or a range of securities in the same asset class.
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11. diversification
    [n] - the condition of being varied 2. [n] - the act of introducing variety (especially in investments or in the variety of goods and services offered)
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12. Diversification
    A firm increasing the range of products it produces
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13. Diversification
    Diversification is to have a broad spread of investments. This might be investment types such as cash, bonds and equities. Also it could relate to an equity portfolio whereby stocks are held in several companies in different sectors.
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14. Diversification
    Diversification:
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15. Diversification
    developing new products for new markets.
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16. Diversification
    Investment jargon for not keeping all your eggs in one basket. Diversification implies that you... <a target=_blank href='http://www.finance-glossary.com/terms/diversification.htm?id=425&ginPtrCode=00000&PopupMode=false' title='Read full definition of diversification'>more</a>
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17. Diversification
    The reduction of risk achieved by buying a portfolio of securities whose returns are not correlated....more on Diversification
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18. diversification
    For an investor, a method of reducing exposure to risk by investing in a range of sectors and financial products. For an insurer, it involves offsetting or counterbalancing risks across business lines, geographies, etc. This can free up some of the capital reserves that would otherwise be necessary to cover the insurer's individual commitments
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19. diversification
    the process of mixing a variety of different investments,types of industries,categories of risk or companies in order to reduce the risk in a portfolio Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs
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20. Diversification
    Di·ver`si·fi·ca'tion noun [ See Diversify .] 1. The act of making various, or of changing form or quality. Boyle. 2. State of diversity or variation; variegation; modification; change; alternation. « Infinite ...
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21. diversification
    variegation noun the act of introducing variety (especially in investments or in the variety of goods and services offered); `my broker recommended a greater diversification of my investments`; `he li...
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22. diversification
    noun the condition of being varied; `that restaurant`s menu lacks diversification; every day it is the same`
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23. Diversification
    Dividing investment funds among a variety of securities with different risk, reward, and correlation statistics so as to minimize unsystematic risk.
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24. Diversification
    • (n.) The act of making various, or of changing form or quality. • (n.) State of diversity or variation; variegation; modification; change; alternation.
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25. diversification
    (from the article `automotive industry`) The automotive industry`s immense resources in production facilities and technical and managerial skills have been devoted predominantly to the ... Diversification—the spreading of one`s talents over more than one farming enterprise—may be accomplished horizontally or vertically. Horizo...
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