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How to Manage Your Investment Risk

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Common Investment Mistakes or Poor Investment Decisions?

  1. Concentrated Positions
  2. Hot Tips
  3. IPOs: Initial Public Offerings
  4. Emotions
  5. Analyst Credibility
  6. Garbage In Means Garbage Out
  7. Buying an Index Fund

  8. Avoiding Unnecessary Taxes

  9. Avoid Banks or other Savings institutions

  10. Procrastinating

Diversification vs. Asset Allocation-Managing Investment Risk

  1. Types of Risk
  2. Blind Diversification vs. Strategic Diversification
  3. Asset Allocation

Cash Flow Analysis

Bonds

Dollar Cost Averaging

Portfolio Management

Hope for the Best but Plan for the Worst

  1. Wills and Trusts
  2. Proper Insurance

Summary

  1. Suggestions

  2. Final thought

Suggestions—Investors should seek institutions that offer the highest level of service and resources for the least possible cost.  Don’t limit your investment options to a single investment.  Have the options to invest in bonds, stock, unit investment trusts, both load and no-load mutual funds, etc.  Avoid investing with a single mutual fund family that is biased towards investing in their own funds and opt for a mutual-fund supermarket that covers multiple fund families at a low or preferably no cost.  Planning your financial future is serious business.  Don’t risk your life savings.  The difference of only a 1% return each year on your investments can mean the difference of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in the long run.  Seek the advice and direction of a licensed professional in his or her perspective fields such as investments, taxes, insurance, law, and financial planning and compare costs.   

Establish financial goals and know your risk tolerance.  Minimizing risk while maximizing returns should be the goal of every investor.  Understand the impact of compounding at different rates of return will produce dramatically different results on the future value of your portfolio.  This is a very important concept many investors fail to conceptualize.  Always factor in the effects of taxation on any investment decision.  Inflation deteriorates the purchasing power of a dollar over time.  If inflation continues to average 3.1% a year, any investment with a lower rate of return will not increase your wealth.  Take advantage of any tax-advantage accounts before investing in taxable accounts. If you do invest in stocks, do it with funds you can afford to lose both physically and mentally. 

Final thought—What are you doing today to ensure a desired retirement lifestyle?  Retirement planning does not start at retirement.  Don’t rely on Social Security as a sole source of retirement income.  Social Security income was designed to keep people out of poverty.  The maximum Social Security benefit for a worker retiring at 65 in 2002 is $1,660/month pre-tax. (Source: Social Security Administration).  To attain maximum benefits, a worker must reach full retirement age, FRA.  FRA is increasing from age 65 to 67 depending on the year you were born.  Given the financial state of social security, Congress may very well continue to increase the FRA beyond age 67 forcing taxpayers to wait longer before receiving maximum retirement benefits.  For more information, call the Social Security Administration at 800-772-1213 or visit www.ssa.gov.

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