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The Motley Fool October 22, 2007 Sham Gad	True Investors Welcome Volatility Investors, use the market to your advantage.
The Motley Fool March 8, 2004 Ben McClure	Rumblings on Risk Forget beta. Find stocks that are already down and have the fundamental risk wrung out of them. Forget the science offered up by risk theory. If a stock has solid business fundamentals and is available at a significant discount to its value, the risk is lower and the prospect of reward is higher.
The Motley Fool August 13, 2007 Sham Gad	Why Diversification Can Leave You Behind It probably doesn't make much sense to have a one-stock portfolio, except maybe if the stock is Berkshire Hathaway. But it makes even less sense to have so many investments that your biggest winners become diluted by overdiversification.
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