DAR ES SALAAM, Sept. 29 -- WHAT if your investment portfolio could continue working for you even when one part of the market slows down?

What if, instead of putting all your money behind one investment outcome, you could spread it across different opportunities with different return and risk characteristics?

This is the power of diversification. For Tanzanian investors, the capital market offers several instruments that can make this approach practical, including shares, bonds and collective investment schemes.

Diversification is not about owning many investments for the sake of numbers. It is about combining investments whose prices, income characteristics and risks may respond differently to economic and market conditions.

In Tanzan...