Too bad, because I agree that risk is not volatility, it is the risk of
permanent loss of capital.
Sending a specific currency to the wrong address may result
in permanent loss of those funds.
That may be fine for theory, but for those of us who live in the real world, we define risk
as permanent loss of capital.
Would your family be able to continue to make mortgage payments in spite of the resulting temporary or
even permanent loss of income?
This creates a conflict between the manager and the investor because the investor views risk as the potential
for permanent loss.
At the right price, we may waive one or more of the above criteria Our selection process is designed to help
avoid permanent loss of capital while generating attractive long - term returns.
If you focus trying to avoid and contain losing money forever than over time your assets will increase and take less punishment
from permanent loss.
The investor who wanted to be protected
against permanent loss risk would be 100 % cash, however, they would risk falling behind in purchasing power by the rate of inflation each year.
Bonds, on the other hand, don't necessarily provide perfect
permanent loss protection nor perfect purchasing power protection, but provide an investor with a more blended mix of the two.
If we intend to avoid the threat of
permanent losses by selling stocks too soon, the mechanical approach doesn't help us much.
And by risk I don't
mean permanent loss of capital, but rather the wild swings that cause you to run for the hills.
If you're not prepared to potentially hold the instrument for most or all of its maturity then your risk of
permanent loss increases substantially.
Many researchers, websites, and books address
minimizing permanent losses while investing near or in retirement and unfortunately, opinions vary.
The consequences from construction site falls can lead to long -
term permanent loss of work and astronomical medical expenses, leaving you on the brink of financial catastrophe.
The biggest risks in our savings portfolios are the loss of purchasing power due to inflation and the risk of
permanent loss due to price declines.
We were so used to fake - out deaths in RPGs (not to mention other fictional media such as comic books) that an
actual permanent loss hit hard.
Sending the incorrect digital assets to a deposit address will result
in permanent loss.
The disease is the notion that an ephemeral boom in one sector
causes permanent losses in others, in a dynamic that is net harmful for the Canadian economy.
Drug and alcohol convictions or combinations of various serious driving violations can draw temporary or
even permanent loss of driving privileges.
And by risk I don't
mean permanent loss of capital, but rather the wild swings that cause you to run for the hills.
While our body can recycle the used up glutathione, severe oxidative stress can cause
permanent loss of glutathione in your cells.
Because «old» investors need some of the investments for spending, they enter a vulnerable period where temporary losses can materialize
into permanent losses all too easily.
«I will not abandon a previous approach whose logic I understand even though it may mean forgoing large, and apparently easy, profits to embrace an approach which I don't fully understand, have not practiced successfully and which, possibly, could lead to
substantial permanent loss of capital.»
Roguelikes with their insta - death, no save structure were inspiration for some of the above tropes, and offered quick, tense gameplay
with permanent loss of progress upon death.
Outcomes
include permanent loss of brain function, acute tubular necrosis in the kidneys, and even, for people active in a heat wave, the leakage of myoglobin from broken skeletal muscle cells, resulting in toxins in the liver and lungs.
This means that a 60/40 portfolio is likely to expose the investor to significantly more risk of
permanent loss late in the cycle (years such as 2000, 2008, etc) than it will early in the cycle.
Their clearest statement is that they seek «to preserve capital from
permanent loss during periods of economic decline... [and post] long term returns above an equity - like absolute return and the MSCI All - Country World Index.»
Portfolio Risk —
Permanent losses at this point may be devastating without an income to replace your lost savings.
We can accomplish this by moving some stocks into ballast during the first few years of the spending phase, but not so much that we lock in
large permanent losses should the stock market crash in those specific years.
For instance, a 60/40 portfolio is more like a 90/10 portfolio in terms of its balance
between permanent loss protection and purchasing power protection.
This portfolio tends to be underweight the risk of purchasing power protection in favor of
greater permanent loss protection while generating income and low but stable returns.
Modern Portfolio Theory doesn't account for the fact that a stock heavy portfolio is always
underweight permanent loss risk protection and becomes even more risky as the market cycle matures.
This conclusion remains true considering the other risks associated with stocks, which I defined in prior articles as not routine volatility, but the relatively moderate risks of
permanent losses over a long - term investing time frame.
Some people define this more specifically as the potential for investment declines or
permanent losses such that your overall investing plan, like your retirement goal, is jeopardized.
Total permanent loss of sight in both the eyes, loss of use of both the hands, loss of use of both feet, or loss of sight in one eye and loss of use of one hand or loss of use of one foot
While we don't think using volatility as a proxy for risk is appropriate (we view risk as the potential
for permanent loss of capital), investors should be well - aware of the nature of the investments to which they will likely be exposed.
«Following a strategy that involved no real risk — defined
as permanent loss of capital — Walter produced results over his 47 partnership years that dramatically surpassed those of the S&P 500,» wrote Buffett, whose stewardship of Berkshire
«The concept of a margin of safety is that an investor should purchase a security at a price sufficiently below his estimate of its intrinsic value that he will have protection
against permanent loss even if his estimate proves somewhat optimistic.»
Phrases with «permanent loss»