Before revision:  The situation changes, however, when systemic risk comes into play. The random network structure has a strong influence on diversification effects, which destroys this simple individual agent's diversification rule. It turns out that diversification is always beneficial from a macro-prudential point of view creating a conflicting situation between the incentives of individual agents and the interest of some superior entity to keep overall risk small.
After revision:  An additional aspect of this paper is the amount of uninsured losses which have to be convered by society. In the situation of networks of agents, in our setting diversification is never detrimental concerning the amount of uninsured losses. If the Pareto-tailed claims have finite mean, diversification turns out to be never detrimental, both for society and for individual agents. In contrast, if the Pareto-tailed claims have infinite mean, a conflicting situation may arise between the incentives of individual agents and the interest of some superior entity to keep overall risk small.