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underdiversification

underdiversification noun: insufficient diversification.

Noun

underdiversification (uncountable)

  1. Insufficient diversification.
    • This is likely because overconfidence is the driving force behind both excessive trading and underdiversification.2009, Lucy Ackert, Richard Deaves, Behavioral Finance: Psychology, Decision-Making, and Markets, →ISBN

Forms of underdiversification

alternative formunder-diversification

Origin of underdiversification

From under- + diversification.

Questions about underdiversification

What does underdiversification mean?
Underdiversification means insufficient diversification.
What part of speech is underdiversification?
Underdiversification is a noun.

Words near underdiversification in the dictionary

  1. underdistributing
  2. underdistribution
  3. underdistributions
  4. underdiuresis
  5. underdivergence
  6. underdiversification
  7. underdiversified
  8. underdiversifies
  9. underdiversify
  10. underdiversifying
  11. underdo

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