Instead of looking for products that can
offset stock risk, most investors would be better served by building safer portfolios.
Not exact matches
Main goals: gaining a moderate amount of earnings in exchange for a moderate amount of
risk;
offsetting the larger
risk of
stocks.
With fears of a richly - priced
stock market, they looked to U.S. government bonds (US$ 8.2 billion) to
offset potential equity
risks.
Bond funds can play an important role in your investment strategy by helping to deliver income,
offset some of the
stock market
risk in your portfolio, and preserve your savings.
Since you earn this income upfront, it
offsets some of the downside
risk in the
stock by reducing your cost basis.
The short - term market
risks of owning
stocks can be
offset by also owning bonds.
The bond portion of the fund helps
offset the
risks associated with the
stock portion — providing you with a «balanced» investment.
By finding a combination of
stocks whose swings in value
offset one another and that will provide decent returns, followers of modern portfolio theory will minimize
risk and maximize reward.
While it remains unknown to most investors, it is in fact safer than outright
stock ownership because the investor's downside
risk is
offset by premium income received for selling the call provision.
The expense ratio could eat up every bit of a fund's yield, or the manager might decide to gun for higher - yielding (and often higher -
risk)
stocks to
offset the fund's built - in expense disadvantage.
With fears of a richly - priced
stock market, they looked to U.S. government bonds (US$ 8.2 billion) to
offset potential equity
risks.
This is reasonable if not great return, but Bonds continue to have other nice properties like relatively low
risk and diversification of
stock portfolios (the «
offset [ing] losses» you mention in the OP).
I do not advocate leveraging the company to buy back
stock for two reasons: First, higher return comes with higher
risk, thus possibly putting downward pressure on a company's P / E and
offsetting any benefits from a share buyback.
While it remains unknown to most investors, it is in fact safer than outright
stock ownership because the investor's downside
risk is
offset by premium income received for selling the call -LSB-...]