Investment Risk
All investing involves a trade-off between risk and return. The key lies in understanding your tolerance to risk.
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What is investment risk?
Risk is the chance your investment will lose some or all of its value. The flipside to risk is return, or the potential return you’ll receive on your investment.
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What types of investment risk are there?
There are a number of different types of risks that may affect your investments. Understanding these risks, how they work and their potential impact will help you to assess your own attitude to risk.
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What is my investment risk profile?
Everyone has a different attitude to risk. This attitude is also likely to change depending on your personal circumstances and changing financial needs.
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How can I make low-risk investments?
It’s difficult to make investments risk-free. You can however, minimise investment risks by adopting some proven strategies.
Did you know?
Tax goes hand in hand with investing. It’s a complex area but an understanding of the fundamentals can ensure you avoid any mistakes at tax time.
Understanding investment fees gives you a real advantage when looking to invest. A small difference of even 1% over a long time frame can make a big difference to your real returns.
