This provides diversification, making the investor less dependent on the fortunes of one state.

Apparently, the firm's holdings are based around real estate but includes other investments in order to provide diversification.

For a fee, the investment company provides more diversification, liquidity, and professional management consulting service than is normally available to individual investors.

Some financial advisers say managed futures funds can provide diversification for portfolios that have only held stocks and bonds.

This approach, however, does not provide instant diversification.

The professors also found that commodities provided better diversification than shares in commodity producers like oil and mining companies.

Only 15 percent of students understood that the purpose of mutual funds was to provide diversification.

For most individuals, the best route to gold exposure may be through a mutual fund, which provides diversification.

Indexing also provides broad diversification so you won't get clobbered if just one sector of the stock market tumbles.

What could provide broader diversification than a sampling of stocks from around the world?