This theory recommends that
the risk of a particular stock should not be looked at on a standalone basis, but rather in relation to how that particular stock's price varies in relation to the variation in price of the market portfolio.
In other words, investors can use single stock futures in place of stock to speculate or hedge against volatility
risk of a particular stock.
Not exact matches
Every
stock has two types
of risk:
risk specific to that
particular stock, and
risk that is correlated to the overall market.
Obviously, there's no guarantee that this
particular round
of tightening will have the same outcome, but if you recognize the
risk here, it might be prudent to have as much as 10 percent
of your wealth in gold bullion and gold
stocks.
In
particular, AIC payments, LTI payments and
stock options represent a significant portion
of our executive compensation program, as shown by the chart below, and this variable compensation is «at
risk» and directly dependent upon the achievement
of pre-established corporate goals and
stock price appreciation:
If you buy just one
stock in the sector you expect to perform well, you run the
risk of being right about the sector, but unlucky with that
particular stock.
As a forward - looking quantity, the equity -
risk premium is theoretical and can not be known precisely, since no one knows how a
particular stock, a basket
of stocks, or the
stock market as a whole will perform in the future.
In the short term, a
particular stock has much more uncertainty and, consequently, the greatest
risk of loss and liquidity which should yield a greater potential return.
Weeklys give you more flexibility, like being able to invest 48 weeks out
of the year (instead
of only 8 months) if you want to avoid earnings
risk for a
particular stock, but most
of them come with wider bid - ask spreads and lower liquidity, making them challenging to roll or exit early.
Basically, if you have a large percentage
of your money investment in one
particular stock, bond, or mutual funds you're exposing yourself to unnecessary
risk.
I have found purchasing ETFs to as easy as purchasing individual
stocks, however, with reduced
risk as it is essentially a basket
of stocks of a
particular group or interest.
If we balance the potential returns and the potential
risks, we find that fixed - rate or fixed index annuities will be principle protected and provide growth that may well be lower than the growth
of stocks and mutual funds in
particular.
Many investors even invest in investments that track one or more
stock indexes in an effort to reduce their
risk and / or assure themselves
of a
particular level
of return (though there are no guarantees).
It measures the exposure
of risk a
particular stock or sector has in relation to the market.
TimesSquare believes that its proprietary fundamental equity research skills, which place
particular emphasis on the assessment
of management quality, an in - depth understanding
of superior business models, and valuation discrepancies, enable the firm to build diversified
stock portfolios that will generate superior
risk - adjusted returns.
My Cabot Dividend Investor aims to prepare you for retirement by recommending a wide range
of income - generating
stocks, preferred
stocks, REITs, MLPs, closed end funds and utilities, with
particular emphasis on
risk, dividend safety and dividend growth.
This mitigates the
risk of falling in love with a
particular stock and becoming blind to its faults — something that's all too easy to do.
It was more to do with the comparison
of the
risk in how 2 investors would manage the purchase
of a
particular stock holding.
Cabot Dividend Investor focuses on preparing for retirement, recommending a solid range
of income - generating
stocks, preferred
stocks, REITs, MLPs, closed end funds and utilities, with
particular emphasis on
risk, dividend safety and dividend growth.
Then
risk increases, upside decreases, and it simply becomes another part
of that
particular stock's price and «story».
He writes about how both closet indexing and shooting for the stars are exposing financial planners» clients to undue
risk: «In a recent issue
of Barron's, a money manager was quite critical
of a
particular stock, but said he owned it, although he was «underweighted».
At the start
of the year, volatility in the global economy and anticipation that the Fed would start raising rates weighed down the
stock market as a whole and REITs in
particular due to perceived interest rate
risk.