The programme, working in five northern districts, is promoting greater access to diversified financial services to the extreme poor and micro and small enterprises.
Baum said: "Longer-term, we continue to strongly endorse the chief executive's dynamic strategy in moving towards a diversified healthcare model, which we believe will create significant shareholder value long-term.
The Reuben brothers are still involved in mining and metals but control a widely diversified business empire that includes property, 850 British pubs, and luxury yacht-maker Kristal Waters.
We are also interested in getting those companies to be more diversified, as a way to protect investor assets.
NGOs such as Nuevas Esperanzas are encouraging smallholder farmers to mitigate the risks with a diversified crop and income portfolio.
More diversified research might help.The second problem is industrial history.
INVESTORS checking out the Everest Capital website will find that the hedge fund offers strategies thatare diversified across themes, countries and sectorsSo they wouldn't have expected losses from any one bet to be that significant.
But as tech firms age (HP is 75) and their growth tails off, they begin to have the dreaded word "conglomerate" applied to them, with its negative implications for the share price.To escape that fate, as in other industries, diversified tech firms have to break themselves up, and concentrate on being first or second in their core businesses.
But such abuses can be addressed without maintaining artificial distinctions in the financial industry.So is the creation of such a huge and diversified financial institution a good thing?
South Africa, which has 6% of sub-Saharan Africa's people but accounts for more than a third of its GDP, has a diversified economy and first-world financial services.
Meanwhile Beretta diversified, buying Burris, a maker of sports binoculars and precision scopes based in Colorado, as it started to reshape itself from a gunmaker into a luxury outdoor brand.
