Investors should therefore be prepared for the possibility of
losing their investment completely.
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In the recent past, you could buy a
completely safe
investment like government treasuries or a five - year certificate of deposit at your local bank that would payout (yield) 5 or 6 % annually with nearly zero chance you would
lose your original
investment.
The likelihood of your $ 500
investment being
completely evaporated is very slim, but if you
lose $ 300 here, the thousands invested in the S&P 500, low risk stocks, government bonds, and mutual funds will more than recuperate the losses.
You also
lose the capital gains exemption inside a TFSA, but this is a moot point really, because any capital gains generated by
investments in the account are
completely tax - free anyway.
By putting only a proportion of your total funds into any one type of
investment, you won't
lose everything if one
investment produces poor results or fails
completely.
BABB has no such downside protection and if it continues to
lose franchisees shareholders are
completely out of luck and could stand to
lose all of their
investment in the company.
If the bank experiences financial difficulty, bank hybrids can be converted into bank shares, which may be worth less than your initial
investment, or even written off
completely, meaning you could
lose all of your capital.
By spreading your money both across different asset classes and between different
investments within the same asset class, you reduce the risk of
losing everything if one of your
investments produces poor results or fails
completely.
War meant travel restrictions of North American vacationers and European
investment was
completely lost.