Is it possible to be too diversified and how can you tell? Why Warren Buffet thinks diversification is protection against ignorance.

Topics covered include:

• The skills you need to be able to select individual stocks.
• How have active managers outperformed relative to passive indexing products.
• How much diversification is too much and a test to determine if one is over diversified.
• What is factor investing and which factors have worked over the past 200 years.

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For show notes and more information on this episode click here.

• [2:22] Exploring the concept of over-diversification
• [5:25] Should you pay for an investment advisor to select individual stocks?
• [8:05] An individual investor should choose index funds
• [11:10] Determining how much diversification is enough?
• [13:37] Weighing the cost against the benefits
• [16:10] When being over diversified is possible
• [17:05] Analyzing the listener question regarding over-diversification
• [20:20] A Fascinating study analyzing 200 years of factors
• [25:08] Layer on additional value factor

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