- 28
- Episodes
- 19
- Transcribed
- 4
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About The Modern Cents Podcast
Welcome to the Modern Cents Podcast, your guide to navigating the ever -evolving world of personal finance. Join me, Andrea Thompson, for insightful interviews and non -traditional perspectives on modern finance. Let's redefine the way we think about money together.
- Publisher
- Andrea Thompson
- Category
- business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 10 Apr 2024
- Latest episode
- 2 Oct 2026
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The Modern Cents Minute: The Danger of "Diworsification"
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The Modern Cents Minute: The Return Nobody Measures
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The Modern Cents Minute: The Danger of "Diworsification"
Published 2 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] There's a name for this trap famously coined by legendary investor Peter Lynch. It's called die-worsification. It happens when you try to protect your portfolio by adding more and more holdings, but instead of reducing risk, you end up doing the exact opposite. You make your portfolio overly complicated, you rack up higher management fees, and worst of all, you don't actually protect yourself against market downturns. On paper, you might look at your statements and see 10, 20, or 30 different things and think, great, I'm really diversified. But here's the cold truth. True diversification is not about counting the number of products, funds, or even logos in your portfolio. […]
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