They may be uncorrelated with other assets and thus offer diversification and reduced risk.
And the investments, said to offer diversification, did little to buffer the market losses of 2008.
They offer diversification and the plentiful resources and infrastructure that comfort many institutional investors.
These nontraditional vehicles often move in the opposite direction from stocks and bonds, and offer diversification in currency, commodities, real estate and other assets.
Funds also offer diversification and investment management.
As major findings, fee-based income seems to be riskier than margin income but offers diversification benefits to bank shareholders.
It offers diversification, low cost, high tax efficiency and the convenience of trading on a stock exchange throughout the day.
The fund sponsors claim the benefit of the new ETF is that it offers diversification by asset class, investment strategy and investment manager.
He's also a proponent of ETFs because they offer diversification, particularly into asset classes that investors might not be as comfortable navigating on their own, such as commodities and currencies.
More alarmingly, international stockmarkets have not offered any diversification either: they have shown a 95% correlation.
