The Investment Risk No One’s Ever Heard Of

5 Categories of Investment Risk and How They Affect your Retirement

What do we mean by risk<br>Investors and savers face risk no matter what, whether they are completely invested in the market or prefer to keep cash in the bank or under a mattress. It is important to understand how to categorize these different risks and understand how they will affect your retirement.<br>Unsystematic risks are specific risks, meaning they are risks that are specific to a company or industry and can be minimized through diversification. Usually, unsystematic risks may affect one type…

How Investment Risk Is Quantified

Financial advisors and wealth management firms use a variety of tools based on modern portfolio theory to quantify investment risk. However, along with the efficient frontier, statistical measures and methods including value at risk (VaR) and capital asset pricing model (CAPM) can all be used to measure risk.

How to Overcome Investment Risks as a Woman

Recent studies have shown that women outperform men as investors, but in order to become better investors, women need the confidence to take more risks.

Why you need a sound investment plan

What separates the winners and losers when it comes to investing? Human behavior -- and a plan

How can I get an 8% return on my investment?

You can't control market returns. You're better off focusing on the things you can control: how much you save and spend, how you divvy up your savings between stocks and bonds and how much of your return you give up to investment expenses.

How Much Investment Risk Can You Stomach?

How much investment risk can you handle? Manisha Thakor on the factors that go into determining risk tolerance.

Your Tolerance for Investment Risk Is Probably Not What You Think

The questions financial advisers ask clients to get at the answer actually measure something completely different—often leading to misguided investment strategies.

8 of the strangest investment ideas advisers have ever heard

Clients and prospects can sometimes get wacky ideas about where to put their money, but these are some of the craziest that advisers have heard.

Money myths you should forget you ever heard

Fed Rate Hike: What Does It Mean for Your Portfolio?

The Federal Reserve just raised interest rates again. How might your investments be affected?

Is Passive Investment Actively Hurting the Economy?

Could an investment method that encourages us to use as little discernment as possible end up being too good to be true?

How Doing Nothing Can Pay Off for Investors

For the three-month period during which I essentially ignored my investments, the Practical Investing portfolio rose 10%.

How an Investment Platform Lowers Risks for Banks and Novice Investors

Ant Financial's investment platform has a neat solution liquidity problems for investors: a peer-to-peer, secondary marketplace.

Money Management: Investment alpha and beta: What does it mean?

In every investment there is always some form of risk. It can range from interest rate risk, business risk, liquidity risk or market risk. To measure the amount of risk in an investment there are f…

Is it really necessary to rebalance your investment portfolio?

Periodic rebalancing is generally a good way to keep your investing strategy on track and to prevent your portfolio from becoming too risky during market surges or too conservative after big market setbacks.

Do Dividend-Paying Stocks Make Better Investments?

Investors mistakenly believe that dividend-paying stocks make better investments. Dividend stocks are usually on the value end of the spectrum, which does make

Learn How to Get VC Investment From a Former Investment Banker

Got a billion-dollar idea? You need million-dollar investors.

How To Perform Investment Analysis That Avoids Paralysis

Performing a strong analysis of your potential investments is what will make your investing strategy effective, accurate, actionable and repeatable.

Investment Trusts: What is Gearing?

Would you borrow money in order to invest it? Investment trust managers do just that, reinvesting debt with the aim of boosting returns to shareholders

How to Conduct a Investment Portfolio Check-up

FUTURE PROOF: Too-frequent portfolio monitoring can lead investors to tinker with their portfolios' unnecessarily, but when you do review your holdings follow these rules