Olympic champ BARBARA KENDALL gets help from NZX's Dan Dividend
Thursday, March 25th 2004, 1:13AM
by The Landlord
Q. Barbara asks: We briefly covered diversification in our discussion of risk last week. Can you tell me how many shares I need to have in an adequately diversified portfolio?
A. Dan Dividend responds: Good question. I'll start with a re-cap on diversification before I call on this week's guest NZX broker.
As we discussed last week, you can use diversification to reduce the risk of your investments.
In share investing, diversification means buying a range of shares across different industries. Share prices move independently - some might be up, others might be down. However, by spreading your investments, overall your money should be growing at a nice steady pace.
Including companies with different risk levels in your portfolio is another diversification tool. You could buy into a big, well established company that dominates its industry, and a young company that looks set to take on the world.
