Investment Insights

#Risk has a bad name these days, probably with good reason

In my previous blogs titled "What I wish I knew at age 25: Understanding investment risk" and "How much money are you prepared  to lose" I said every investor, including me, has to know their own appetite for risk before they can even think about targeting the returns they’d like to get. Basically, how much money are you prepared to lose in the short term in order to reach your long-term goal?

How much money are you prepared to lose... 

in the short term to meet a long term goal? 

Last time,  I told you how Riskalyze is specifically designed to match how much you are prepared to lose money (risk) in the short term against your long-term goals (returns). I’ll go into that a bit more later, but first let me tell how badly the investment industry has let down ordinary investors.

What I wish I knew at age 25: Understanding investment risk

I wish I knew at the age of 25 what I know now. Back then, with my first real money to invest, I was clueless about how much risk I was prepared to take and what returns I was looking for. So I filled in the old-fashioned question-and-answer thing every investment adviser gives you and I was advised that I fell into the “moderately aggressive” category.

Investing is a Human Right.

I spent a portion of my Human rights day in a room full of beautiful, talented and courageous women who were together to share their experiences of what being a modern woman looks like. The challenges that we are faced with all ranging from health issues, child maintenance issues, social media and investing.