Part of the reason academia's efforts to diversify often have failed, Clemmons suggested, is that minorities are rarely members of the peer networks that college and university faculties use to replenish themselves.
Even those who know they should diversify often do it wrong by randomly distributing their contributions across their investment options.
In general, people are poorly diversified and often when they look back at the moments when they have lost more money than they care to remember it is because they held undiversified positions in instruments that went sour.
In peripatric speciation, a small population is isolated at the edge of a larger population and rapidly diversifies, often crossing a previous barrier to dispersal and/or occupying a newly available ecological niche/habitat type.
Diversifying selection often occurs in association with mimicry.
Their ability to sell and diversify was often limited by restrictions on the grants, the terms of the specific plans and tighter rules on selling by employees while they addressed years-earlier accounting scandals.
At the individual operator level, perceived opportunities to diversify were often linked to stewardship practices, for instance eco-tourism, accreditation, and uptake of green technologies.
However, the high turn-over of businesses in tourism and the challenge of achieving return on investment in an insecure global context mean that the level of capital investment needed to diversify is often prohibitive.
Under sanctions, South African firms could not expand overseas, so they diversified at home, often into businesses they knew little about.
A Yale graduate, a Rhodes scholar, an audacious investor, a Presbyterian who preached open-mindedness and eschewed literal interpretations of Scripture, Mr. Templeton — who began annual meetings with prayers, he said, to clear the minds of shareholders — made billions as a pioneer in his globally diversified Templeton funds, often taking the old advice of "buy low, sell high" to extremes.
