How to check if your portfolio is actually diversified

Owning many positions is not diversification — twenty tech stocks move as one when the sector turns. Real diversification is about how your money is spread across things that do not fall together.

01Look through three lenses

Asset class (equities / bonds / crypto / cash), geography (home market vs. world), and sector. A portfolio can look fine through one lens and dangerously concentrated through another.

02Find your concentration points

Any single position above ~10% of the portfolio, or sector above ~30%, deserves a conscious decision: conviction is fine, but it should be chosen, not accidental.

03Rebalance on triggers, not emotions

Set drift thresholds (e.g. an allocation 5 points off target) and act when they trip. Threshold rebalancing removes the temptation to tinker on every headline.

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