We need to overcome the emphasis on short - term «economic gain»
rather than investment in activities with long - term benefit.
While these funds have the potential to provide high income and total returns, they are riskier and more volatile
than their investment grade counterparts.
High yield fixed income securities are considered speculative, involve greater risk of default, and tend to be more
volatile than investment grade fixed income securities.
I noticed that, with a 5 % per year (annualized) growth rate, the (real) income stream was about 1 % per year
less than the Investment Return.
The financial gains that a person can get from a driving education course is far
higher than the investment in the driving school fee.
High yield bonds generally have greater price swings and higher default
risks than investment grade bonds.
Recently, I have determined that an investment with a higher yield and slow growth does
better than an investment with lower yield and fast growth, subject to certain conditions.
Typically, interest rates will show this; second - home mortgages may have lower interest
rates than investment property loans, but not necessarily.
An investment with a variable interest rate is a higher risk
than an investment with a fixed rate because you never really know how much you'll earn in the end.
Given that your savings rate is far more
important than your investment return, you're not sacrificing as much as you might think by keeping your money out of the market.
It is questionable whether the vast majority of individual investors should own directly any common stocks or individual bonds rather
than investment funds.
The group says that discrimination lawsuits have traditionally been brought directly against the original mortgage lenders rather
than investment banks that packaged the loans into securities.
So I'd love to see you (or anyone) work out a clear example of how matching works for an individual, particularly one with more salary income
than investment income.
This is because, unlike a whole life insurance, this policy acts merely as a protective cover rather
than an investment option.
If the price of your real estate appreciates slower
than your investment portfolio it would make sense to pay off as much of your mortgage and borrow some money for the purposes of investing.
An investment in a fund that is less diversified across countries or geographic regions is generally
riskier than an investment in a more geographically diversified fund.
Study after study shows that investors do worse
than the investment products they own because they often buy high and sell low — pretty much the opposite of what is recommended.
The Company invests in smaller companies that may be less liquid than in larger companies and price swings may therefore be greater
than investment companies that invest in larger companies.
If you're wondering if a savings account will earn you more
than an investment account, such as a taxable brokerage account, it probably won't depending on the market.
We feel that investing on the basis of rising and falling commodity prices, instead of in commodity - producing stocks, is more of a
gamble than an investment.
We can't predict the future, but if it's anything like the past, then investments in the stock market are actually much
safer than investments in cash.
Investment in education produces greater results across the board
than investment into any other single element.
Such activity in its index can cause the ETF to lose possibly significantly more
than an investment focused on only long or short positions in the same futures contracts.
In fact, research shows that these sorts of frightening setbacks may occur more
than investment analysts originally thought.
For this reason, fixed income investments that have medium to high levels of interest rate risk may provide better diversification to
equities than investments with lower levels of interest rate risk.
Low volatility better describes an outcome or a goal rather
than an investment process; there are several different ways one can produce low volatility results.
High - yield bonds can sometimes be less
liquid than investment - grade bonds, depending on the issuer and the market conditions at any given time.
The advisors he recommends are commissioned salespeople, rather
than investment advisors who charge a fee based on the value of your portfolio.
That's because their investments, including those in their 401 (k) s and mutual funds, will gain far less
than the investments from the past 30 years.
Second, because consumption creates a more labor - intensive
demand than investment, much lower GDP growth does not necessarily equate to much higher unemployment.