What is Portfolio Diversification

 

What is Portfolio

A portfolio is a collection of financial investments like stocks, bonds, commodities, cash, and cash equivalents and mutual funds.

What is Portfolio Diversification

Portfolio diversification is the process of investing your money in different asset classes and securities in order to minimize the overall risk of the portfolio.

Invent in multiple mutual funds instead of a single fund, and it helps to reduce the risk.

Portfolio diversification by fund type



Example Diversification



In above table 

Person A invest the amount only in Equity Fund and it is high risk.

Person B invest the same amount in both Equity (High risk) and Debt Fund (Moderate risk)

Scenario 1: Market is high

There is no doubt!. Person A return is better than Person B

Scenario 2: Marker is low

Person A loss is greater than Person B. In detail,

Assume Equity fund is in negative trend falls 10% and Debt fund remains a positive or flat trend

Person A's Loss is 1 rupee and invested in Equity Fund only

Person B's Loss is 0.50 paise because he has a diversified portfolio, invested in both Equity and Debt funds

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