Markowitz diversification
A strategy that seeks to combine assets a portfolio with returns that are less than perfectly positively correlated, in an effort to lower portfolio risk (variance) without sacrificing return. |
Similar financial terms
Markowitz efficient set of portfoliosThe collection of all efficient portfolios, graphically referred to as the Markowitz efficient frontier.
Markowitz efficient portfolio
Also called a mean-variance efficient portfolio, a portfolio that has the highest expected return at a given level of risk.
Markowitz efficient frontier
The graphical depiction of the Markowitz efficient set of portfolios representing the boundary of the set of feasible portfolios that have the maximum return for a given level of risk. Any portfolios above the frontier cannot be achieved. Any below the frontier are dominated by Markowitz efficient portfolios.
Diversification
The holding of assets whose returns are not perfectly correlated
Principal of diversification
Highly diversified portfolios will have negligible unsystematic risk. In other words, unsystematic risks disappear in portfolios, and only systematic risks survive.
Naive diversification
A strategy whereby an investor simply invests in a number of different assets and hopes that the variance of the expected return on the portfolio is lowered.
Magic of diversification
The effective reduction of risk (variance) of a portfolio, achieved without reduction to expected returns through the combination of assets with low or negative correlations (covariances).
Liquidity diversification
Investing in a variety of maturities to reduce the price risk to which holding long bonds exposes the investor.
