Sentences with phrase «in permanent capital loss»

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Did they suffer the permanent loss of capital of so many who invested in the telecom, media and tech stocks?

For instance, if you have to write a check for your daughter's wedding in two days and your portfolio is down 30 percent, then volatility and risk are one and the same, since your sale will result in a permanent loss of capital.

This should matter for all investors as in a world of low returns, ensuring the avoidance of permanent loss of capital is paramount.

In my view, the biggest investment risk is not the volatility of prices, but whether you will suffer a permanent loss of capital.

We seek to buy competitively entrenched, well - managed businesses trading at deeply discounted prices in the public markets to generate superior long - term absolute returns and minimize the risk of permanent capital loss.

But they can be volatile in bear markets (like equities) and carry the risk of permanent loss of capital (like equities).

This final stage is designed to manage risk — in our view the potential for permanent capital loss.

These types of investors are willing to suffer through periods of temporary (but significant) loss of capital in an attempt to find opportunities where the probability of the permanent loss of capital is small.

Second, the less conservative strategy in terms of quality must contend with large spikes in credit spreads that coincide with permanent capital losses on the shakiest of credits.

The easiest way to avoid risk (and I'm talking about the correct definition of risk, which is permanent loss of capital, not volatility) is to avoid debt, both personally and in the companies that we invest in.

Did they suffer the permanent loss of capital of so many who invested in the telecom, media and tech stocks?

I'd like to see more bloggers and other investors do a good dissection of their investments that resulted in a permanent loss of capital, to see if there is something we need to add to our checklists to prevent it from happening again.

That we will attempt to bring risk of permanent capital loss (not short - term quotational loss) to an absolute minimum by obtaining a wide margin of safety in each commitment and a diversity of commitments; and

This resulted in a market meltdown that caused substantial drawdowns in value for many equity mutual funds, in a range of forty to sixty per cent, causing many small investors to panic and suffer a permanent loss of capital which many of them could not afford nor replace.

Doing otherwise has the potential both to result in mediocre long - term returns and to increase the risk of permanent capital loss.

In my view, the biggest investment risk is not the volatility of prices, but whether you will suffer a permanent loss of capital.

When you are leveraged you can run into volatility, that impairs your ability to stay in an investment which can result in a permanent loss of capital.»

The Street pays little heed to risk, the possibility of permanent loss of capital, in the pursuit of big gains.

That said, I think the holistic approach of sticking to high - quality companies that have lengthy track records of paying and growing dividends is fairly low in risk as far as permanent capital loss.

When you are leveraged, you can run into volatility that impairs your ability to stay in an investment — which can result in a permanent loss of capital.»

I do not think that most clients would want their managers investing in equities irrespective of the possibility for permanent capital loss or potential long - term returns

To me, risk is the permanent loss of capital, and in that sense I have an absolute return mentality.

To us, a margin of safety means taking measures in our fundamental and valuation analyses with the aim of avoiding a substantial or permanent loss of capital, even if an investment experiences temporary setbacks or headwinds.

A lesser permanent loss of capital can result in a portfolio that has greater scope to appreciate.

But I think the key points to make to the investors is that risk should not be defined as short - term volatility but permanent loss of capital, which can happen in the bond markets, as investors in Greek bonds found out.

We define risk as a permanent loss of capital, controlled at the portfolio and stock level via allocation limits, our focus on private market value (PMV) and our in - depth understanding of the companies we choose.