Lessons in investing

Lesson 2: What is risk?

All investments carry a degree of risk. As a general rule, the more risk you take, the greater the expected returns you could receive. As an investor, you need to ensure your portfolio is structured according to the amount of risk you need, want, and are able to bear.

AcuityINSIGHT: Good outcomes: the result of a sensible processIt's well understood that past performance alone is no indicator of strong performance going forward. This Insight demonstrates that focusing on structure and risk exposures, rather than performance, leads to positive outcomes. It's important not to be performance-focused, but rather concentrate on

AcuityINSIGHT: If, and, then, but…This Insight takes the case of Evergrande - a Chinese property developer whose financial woes have caused some jitters in the market - and explains how news stories often get conflated by conditional probabilities of possibly linked events.

AcuityINSIGHT: Stock ownership: a slice of the pieThis short educational note focuses on some of the basic features of being a shareholder in public equity markets, which can sometimes be taken for granted when one is familiar with - and regularly invests in - model portfolios comprising equity funds.

Lessons in investing

Lesson 2: What is risk?

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