An aggressive investor is the type of person willing to invest
in high risk assets hoping to receive high rewards.
Late yesterday and overnight, the Dollar appeared to be ready to weaken as demand for
higher risk assets began to pick up.
A shift in demand for
higher risk assets early this morning is leading some traders to take a little money off the table.
By design, the Fed wished to push investors into
higher risk assets such as equities and real estate by lowering the return on safe bond investments.
News that Greeceâ $ ™ s budget problems could escalate sent traders into the Dollar and out
of higher risk assets.
By design, the Fed wished to push investors
into higher risk assets such as equities and real estate by lowering the return on safe bond investments.
Renewed Demand for Risky Assets Pumps Up U.S. Equities Renewed demand for
higher risk assets helped to drive the March E-mini S&P 500 through the December high at 1126.50 to 1129.75.
Market participants ended 2016 favoring
higher risk asset classes such as equities (S&P 500), commodities (S&P GSCI), and REITs (Dow Jones U.S. Select REIT Index).
The immediate reaction was to sell
higher risk assets after Obama called for a reduction in the size and trading activities of financial institutions.
Better than Expected GDP Could Support Demand for
Higher Risk Assets U.S. stock indices may see fresh buying today if GDP exceeds todayâ $ ™ s consensus estimate of 4.5 %.
Stocks Waver after Steep Drop in U.S. Pending Home Sales After two days of greater demand for
higher risk assets drove stock prices higher, U.S. equity markets wavered most of the day following a steep drop in pending home sales.
Speculators are betting big that the Fed FOMC statement will indicate there still is time to
buy higher risk assets before the Fed begins tightening.
U.S. Dollar Edges Lower as Investors Seek Risky Assets The U.S. Dollar continued its New Year slide as investors
sought higher risk assets.
Strong Dollar Limiting Risk for Higher Yielding Assets The strengthening Dollar is leading to a sell - off in equity, oil and gold markets this morning as investors are
leaving higher risk assets for the safety of the Greenback and U.S. Treasuries.
Renewed Demand for
Higher Risk Assets Fuels Surge in Commodities A renewed surge in demand for yielding assets is helping to drive crude oil and gold prices overnight.
S&P and NASDAQ Post Weekly Reversal Tops Investors continued to dump
higher risk assets today triggering weekly closing price reversal tops in the December E-mini S&P 500 and the December E-mini NASDAQ.
Lower Demand for
Higher Risk Assets Pressures Equities U.S. equity markets are called lower this morning following sell - off in Asia and Europe.
Our research shows that many asset classes become more / less risky as the business cycle unfolds, but a static asset allocation approach leaves investors
overweight high risk assets at the riskiest point in the cycle.
Furthermore, I suggest that much of the decline in HCP's share price was as a result of HCP's previous management team and poor decision to invest in
higher risk assets with an overweight exposure in HCR ManorCare.
Dollar Gains as Investors Shy Away from Risky Assets The U.S. Dollar posted a strong gain versus major currencies on Thursday as investors pulled money out
of higher risk assets and sought refuge in the safer Greenback.
Correlations between crude oil and
other higher risk assets, such as stocks, emerging market assets and high yield bonds, remain elevated.
Tumbling Dollar Sends Equities Markets Sharply Higher Demand for
higher risk assets helped to trigger a strong rally in U.S. stock markets.
If you are young (let's say in your teens, twenties, or early thirties), then the best place for you to invest is
in high risk assets like small company stocks.
As these are
higher risk asset classes vs. those already in the Sleepy Portfolio, the expected return of the portfolio would increase.
Stocks Finish Weaker but Investors Continue to Support the Dips U.S. equity markets closed lower as investors
dumped higher risk assets, but buyers once again stepped in on the intra-day dip.
As the policemen look ever younger and the lineup at Glastonbury seems ever more foreign, you want to have ever less of your money in
higher risk assets such as shares, and more in lower volatility assets like bonds.
As such, investors in the income arena are increasingly shifting funds from safer bets like Treasuries and Money Markets
into higher risk assets that actually delivery meaningful yield.
Gold prices fell to the lowest in nearly six weeks on Monday as the US dollar strengthened and easing tensions on the Korean peninsula helped boost appetite
for higher risk assets such as stocks.
(Updates prices, headline; adds comment, second byline, NEW YORK to dateline) NEW YORK / LONDON, April 30 (Reuters)- Gold prices fell to the lowest in nearly six weeks on Monday as the dollar strengthened and easing tensions on the Korean peninsula helped boost appetite for
higher risk assets such as stocks.
NEW YORK / LONDON, April 30 - Gold prices fell to the lowest in nearly six weeks on Monday as the dollar strengthened and easing tensions on the Korean peninsula helped boost appetite for
higher risk assets such as stocks.
Bitcoin should be seen like
a high risk asset, and you should never store money that you can not afford to lose with Bitcoin.
Overall, he's
a high risk asset.
Correlations between crude oil and other
higher risk assets, such as stocks, emerging market assets and high yield bonds, remain elevated.
There are four main categories of assets: cash, fixed income securities, stocks and
high risk assets.
In doing so we are reducing the portfolio's exposure to downside when
high risk assets become riskier late in the cycle and adding to high risk assets during downturns when they become less risky.
(Coincidentally,
higher risk assets are often accompanied by higher fees for Wall Street.)
You're taught in financial class that
high risk assets have higher returns than low risk assets, simply because no one in their right mind would invest in a high risk game without the prospect of commensurately high returns.
Correlations between crude oil and other
higher risk assets, such as stocks, emerging market assets and high yield...
The downgrade of Greeceâ $ ™ s credit rating fueled yesterdayâ $ ™ s sell - off, but the lack of new bearish developments overnight has triggered renewed demand for
higher risk assets.
U.S. economic reports may have to take a backseat today as traders express their concerns with growing European sovereign debt issues by selling off
higher risk assets.