Jasz
VIP Contributor
Are you still investing all your money in one basket? If so, it's time to diversify.
Diversification is a strategy that helps you manage risk by spreading your investments over multiple assets. By doing so, you can decrease the amount of money you lose if the value of one asset goes down. For example, if you invest in stocks and bonds but one of them decreases in value, it won't hurt as much because you have other investments that are doing well.
Diversification can also help protect your portfolio from unexpected events like natural disasters or economic downturns. If all of your money is invested in a single sector, like real estate, and an earthquake hits, then all of your money could be lost at once. But when you diversify across different industries, then even if one sector takes a hit, it will not affect everything else equally. And if something happens that negatively affects an entire industry (such as an economic downturn), then some other sectors might benefit from this change, which means there's still some way for your portfolio to grow.
This doesn't mean that you should put all of your hard-earned dollars into risky investments and hope for the best; instead diversify.
Diversification is a strategy that helps you manage risk by spreading your investments over multiple assets. By doing so, you can decrease the amount of money you lose if the value of one asset goes down. For example, if you invest in stocks and bonds but one of them decreases in value, it won't hurt as much because you have other investments that are doing well.
Diversification can also help protect your portfolio from unexpected events like natural disasters or economic downturns. If all of your money is invested in a single sector, like real estate, and an earthquake hits, then all of your money could be lost at once. But when you diversify across different industries, then even if one sector takes a hit, it will not affect everything else equally. And if something happens that negatively affects an entire industry (such as an economic downturn), then some other sectors might benefit from this change, which means there's still some way for your portfolio to grow.
This doesn't mean that you should put all of your hard-earned dollars into risky investments and hope for the best; instead diversify.