Wednesday, 27 July 2011

Understanding What's Your Investment Style?

By Gabriel Obertan


Understanding what your risk toleration and investment style are will help you select investments more wisely. While there are several different sorts of investments that one can make, there are actually only three explicit investment styles and those 3 styles tie in with your risk toleration. The 3 investment styles are conservative, moderate, and assertive.

Naturally, if you find that you have a low tolerance for risk, your investment style will most likely be conservative or moderate at best. If you have a high tolerance for risk, you will most likely be a moderate or aggressive investor. At the same time, your financial goals will also determine what style of investing you use.

If you're saving for retirement in your early twenties, you must use a conservative or moderate kind of investing but if you're trying hard to get together the funds to purchase a home in the next year or 2, you would wish to use an assertive style.

Conservative investors want to maintain their initial investment. In other words, if they invest $5000 they want to be sure that they will get their initial $5000 back. This type of investor usually invests in common stocks and bonds and short term money market accounts.

An interest earning high-interest account is exceedingly commonplace for conservative speculators. A moderate financier generally invests very similar to a conservative financier, but will use a part of their investment funds for higher risk investments. Many moderate financiers invest half of their investment funds in safe or conservative investments, and invest the remainder in more dangerous investments.

An aggressive investor is willing to take risks that other investors won't take. They invest higher amounts of money in riskier ventures in the hopes of achieving larger returns - either over time or in a short amount of time. Aggressive investors often have all or most of their investment funds tied up in the stock market.

Again, deciding on what kind of investing you may use will be decided by your monetary goals and your risk toleration. Whatever what sort of investing you do nevertheless, you need to thoroughly research that investment. Never invest without having all the facts!




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