Diversify Asset Classes and Investment Strategies

On July 28, 2009, SeekingAlpha.com. The 2008 markets taught us a valuable lesson that just merely holding once considered 'diversified' assets in a portfolio is not sufficient or, at best is very difficult, to reduce the systemic risk: during the 2008 market stress, almost all of assets (other than the US Treasuries and cash) were suddenly correlated and declined simultaneously. Read more ...