Portfolio with sixty different railway securitie

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Professor Harry Markowitz, co-recipient of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Economics, wrote the following:

A portfolio with sixty different railway securities, for example, would not be as well diversified as the same size portfolio with some railroad, some public utility, mining, various sort of manufacturing, etc.

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