Gambling, trading, risk intolerance and investing
An investment is a favourable bet. Gambling is an unfavourable bet.
risk
Conventional diversification makes no sense
The concerns which fail are those which have scattered their capital, which means that they have scattered their brains also. They have investments in this, or that, or the other, here, there and everywhere
Risk when markets are down
Here were financial people who could seriously consider that stocks are less safe because they have declined in price than they were after they had advanced in price
Moderate risk tolerance
One way to be adept at avoiding failure is to avoid attempting anything you might fail at
How to cope with volatility
A high volatility 5-to-10-year return stream that might see several 30% drawdowns on the way to a superb 10 year record
My thoughts on asset allocation
They looked at the allocation between stocks, bonds and cash. They found that over 95 percent of the funds’ returns came from their asset allocation.
Let’s clear up misunderstandings about risk and volatility
A risky investment may be volatile, but not every volatile investment is risky.
How much riskier are stocks than bonds?
In such an environment, many investors actually consider investments they are making are low risk when, in fact, they are higher risk.
Let’s cut to the heart of how risk and uncertainty impact diversification
Diversification is inadequate as a risk management technique and too primitive for the new environment of volatility and uncertainty.
The joy of higher return with no more risk
If we calculate the value of a common stock to be only slightly higher than its price, we’re not interested in buying
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