In future, seed funding for technology firms is likely to come from "angel investors", typically rich people looking for diversification, rather than institutions.Investment bankers have seen an increasing share of their fees come from private-equity deals.
Gold has become a fairly reasonable option and a dominant commodity for investors looking for diversification and hedging in the financial market.
And there are huge pools of pension and 401(k) money looking for diversification in the face of a high-priced stock market.
As margins continue to narrow, look for diversification into power production and oil exploration.
"It's a good thing to look for diversification, but it's difficult and risky," says Hugues.
Investors looking for global diversification should make sure that the percentage of domestic investments in a particular global fund is relatively small, Ms. Hughes added.
Like Fijian politicians were looking for political diversification already before the coup of 2006 their Indian counterparts had started with their effort to look beyond the South Asian region a few years earlier.
According to Chang et al. (2004), emerging countries became attractive markets to investors looking for portfolio diversification and financial returns above the average attainable from the consolidated markets of developed countries.
It can also be a bad thing if you are looking for sector diversification, and, even worse, it can be downright dangerous when the inflated stocks dominating the index fall fast during a correction.
Investors who are looking for risk diversification in a wobbly market should consider investing in European real estate, according to FERI, a wealth-management consultant in Bad Homburg, outside of Frankfurt ("It's The Old Economy, Stupid!" Forbes Global, Aug. 7).
After reducing BP's scope of operations in the U.S., CEO Dudley had been looking for growth and diversification opportunity.
