diversification

Few would have imagined 2020 turning out as it has done but MLC can at least claim that thanks to its investment architecture — Investment Futures Framework — the...

Nobel prize winner Harry Markowitz gets the credit for coining the phrase that “diversification is the only free lunch in finance”. Add the insight that stock markets...

More commonly remembered by its lyrics, the 1997 song ‘Tubthumping’ by British band Chumbawamba topped charts globally, becoming an international hit. The single was...

In the AFR this weekend I argue that one of the most popular yet flawed homilies in fixed-income investing is that diversification is a universally good thing. Whereas...

Over the past few months, we have seen some inconceivable things from markets and economies around the globe; from talk of negative interest rates to wild valuations,...

“Time in the market beats timing the market – almost always.” - Ken Fisher The idea of being able to time the market is emotionally appealing. After every significant...

The turmoil we have seen in markets over the past few weeks has served as a timely reminder of the importance of diversification in portfolios, both across asset...

Following on from my recent note “The Upside of Diversification” (available on the Koda Capital Insights page here), I want to now turn to a related theme that is also...

The phrase “diversification is the only free lunch in investing” is attributed to the Nobel Prize laureate Harry Markowitz. Investors accept this principle with few...

The intensity of news flow recently has made events that happened only days ago feel like they took place in the distant past, and recent history – months or...