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Diversification

A risk management strategy that mixes a wide variety of investments within a portfolio to limit exposure to any single asset or risk factor. Correlated assets can still fall together in a crisis.

Systems Engineering Analogy

Fault tolerance in distributed server architecture: distributing traffic across multiple availability zones so the failure of one node does not take down the cluster.

Featured in: Book 03: Fault Tolerant