This shows altcoins are best
considered speculative assets first and foremost.
Not exact matches
I commented in Money Sense Magazine in May of last year that this
asset class should be
considered part of an investor's total portfolio where alternative investments including commodities,
speculative ventures, derivatives, early stage companies, etc. should be no more that 5 to 10 % of the investor's portfolio.
Aside from acceptable «basis» risk between the stocks we hold long and the indices we use to hedge, and perhaps 1 % of
assets in option time - premium at any given time as a result of staggering our strikes to provide a stronger defense, we don't
consider various
speculative bubbles as threats to our own returns.
These portfolios primarily invest in U.S. high - income debt securities where at least 65 % or more of bond
assets are not rated or are rated by a major agency such as Standard & Poor's or Moody's at the level of BB (
considered speculative for taxable bonds) and below.
Warrants may be
considered more
speculative than certain other types of investments in that they do not entitle a holder to dividends or voting rights with respect to the underlying securities that may be purchased nor do they represent any rights in the
assets of the issuing company.
In January 2018, at the World Economic Forum, Prime Minister Theresa May voiced her apprehensions toward virtual currency and suggested that stronger regulations should be
considered «very seriously» — a sentiment that was echoed earlier this month by BOE governor Mark Carney who, in an interview with CNBC, decried the «
speculative mania» that surrounds crypto
assets.
Neither is necessarily right or wrong, you have to do what's right for you, but i have to say I believe there are 2 different kinds of debt - consumption debt which is bad (e.g. student loans and credit cards), which Kiyosaki calls «doo dads» and what I
consider «good debt», by using other peoples money (such as a bank) to purchase INCOME PRODUCING
ASSETS (NOT
speculative ones).