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Education·16 April 2026·5 min read

Don't put all your eggs in one basket — the power of diversification

The oldest investing rule, explained simply: spreading risk protects you from disaster.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket — the power of diversification
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Diversification means not putting all your money in one place. If you invest everything in one company and it falls, you lose everything. If you spread across several, one failure won't ruin you.

A rule thousands of years old

Ancient merchants split their goods across several ships, so they wouldn't lose everything if one sank. The same simple logic protects any portfolio today.

Risk cannot be eliminated. But it can be spread — and that changes everything.