In the world of investing, diversification is a common terminology used to describe the process of allocating capital with the view of reducing exposure to a particular asset or risk.
When you invest in the financial market, you are exposed to systemic - the market risk - and unsystemic risk - the unique risk. So investment managers use diversification to reduce volatility by investing in various asset classes.
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