Diversification: When the only 'free lunch' in finance makes you sick

More not always merrier

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Many people will have heard the phrase 'diversification is the only free lunch in finance' from the great Harry Markowitz’s seminal paper Portfolio Selection published in The Journal of Finance in 1952.

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