diworsification

9.9

Making an investment portfolio worse by putting money into too many or bad assets

noun
/ˌdaɪˌwɜːrsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

Jargon

: diworsificación

Instead of improving returns, his portfolio suffered from diworsification after investing in poorly performing sectors.

Examples

Excessive acquisition of unrelated companies led to diworsification and a decline in shareholder value.
The diworsification of his investment portfolio led to significant losses.
Analysts warned that further expansion could result in diworsification rather than effective growth.
Investors should avoid diworsification at all costs.
After investing in many unrelated sectors, he experienced diworsification in his portfolio.
The company's diworsification strategy decreased overall returns as they expanded into weak markets.
She realized that her attempt to diversify her investments led to diworsification instead of profit.

Antonyms

concentration

130 3.5

A large number of people or things gathered in one place

specialization

14 4.1

A particular area of work or study that someone focuses on

How Harmful

crash

92 5.2

diworsification

Jargon

9.9

diversification

Specialized

15 6.1

Surface Forms

diworsification singular

diworsifications plural

Etymology

The word diworsification is a joking blend of diversify and worse, where diversify means 'to spread' your investments. It describes spreading investments in a way that actually makes them 'worse', so returns fall or risk goes up.