By the mid-1990s theastst had missed the shift from minicomputers to personal computers as the flexible Silicon Valley ecosystem sped ahead with innovation across a diversifying range of components and systems going from chips, routers, and application software to ecommerce and search engines.
But $6.6 billion (sales) Commercial Metals, a 90-year-old producer of steel beams, copper tubes and rebar, has a diversified customer portfolio spread across global manufacturing, recycling and trading.
Studies over the years have shown that a portfolio diversified across several industries reduces investment risk and increases return, and that global diversification does the job even better.
Xstrata said in its statement that a "combination would create a premier portfolio of operations diversified across multiple commodities and geographies".
The selected entrepreneurs provided a cross-section of subjects diversified across industry, demographics, and time.
While some groups have been weakened or put out of business altogether, other syndicates have deepened their foothold domestically, expanded their power across borders and diversified their operations into other economic sectors.
These patterns likely result from a complex interplay of genetic drift and gene flow as the chacma lineage diversified across a broad geographic landscape during the climatically variable Plio-Pleistocene.
This provides little information about the geographic origin of Californian taxa, but indicates that a common ancestor diversified across western North America in the distant past.
One way to limit the risk that inflation will undermine the dollar value of your bonds is to invest in an index fund diversified across emerging markets or by sticking with a manager who you're confident knows the ropes (Payden Emerging Markets Bond Fund rates an A from FORBES in down markets and a D in up markets).
One of the tenets of SunPower is that we like to be diversified across market segments, because it's still an incentivized market, a policy-driven market.
