The art and science of risk in investment
A deep understanding of risk and its management is key to creating a portfolio that yields maximum returns
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SOME people have an appetite for risk. Plenty of thrill seekers jump on to off-road motorbikes and ATVs, or hurtle down black diamond runs on a snowboard, and reap the adrenaline-based rewards.
With the meteoric rise of online trading apps, we are now seeing many amateur investors flying down metaphorical black diamond runs to ride the stock markets aggressively.
I have done both in my younger days; snowboarding was a true passion of mine, and so was speculative trading. While I still love snowboarding and hope to get back on some of the more challenging slopes again in the future, I have built a very different view when it comes to speculative trading.
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