Did Diversification Really Fail? Evidence for Stock Portfolios
7 Pages Posted: 5 Apr 2012
Date Written: April 5, 2012
Abstract
We present empirical evidence for 47 liquid stocks from the SPI universe that the diversification potential remained intact during the Financial Crisis. This contradicts the widespread believe that diversification has failed and has major implication for the risk management approach used in actively managed portfolios.
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Steiner, Andreas, Did Diversification Really Fail? Evidence for Stock Portfolios (April 5, 2012). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2034940 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2034940
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