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Investors have been so oversold on diversification that fear of putting too many eggs in one basket has caused them to put far too little thought into individual eggs. Diversification is a hedge against ignorance, nothing more.

Joel Greenblatt, You Can Be a Stock Market Genius (1997)
3w ago

What's being penalised is diversification itself. Punishment awaits any portfolio that doesn't look like the index, says UBS. Clever stock picking won't deliver outperformance like it once did, not just because it's hard, but because it means allocating cash away from the dominant eight.

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