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Discover different investment personalities and determine which type of investment strategy suits your needs. Explore the benefits and drawbacks of conservative, moderately conservative, moderate, moderately aggressive, and aggressive investment approaches.
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Would you want to be in this type of investment? Why or why not? • Who benefits most from this type of investment strategy? Who would not benefit from this investment strategy?
Conservative • Does not tolerate market fluctuations • Lose upside potential • Need investments as paycheck; tight budget cannot lose money; little time recoup losses • Cash & maturity bonds (CDS & Money market) – Fixed Annuities • High inflation can hurt them, why???
Moderately Conservative • Tolerate a little more risk but cannot take large short term fluctuations • Retires, soon to be retired, been hurt by investments in past • want to be in the game, mostly defensive • fixed income securities, several types of stock (blue chips), real estatereturn a little more than taxes and inflation
Moderate • Long term investment for retirement or college fundingMOST INVESTORS want good return will take some risk (be somewhat in line with market – S & P 500) • greater returns – have more timebonds to high risk stocks
Moderately Aggressive • Taking on more downside risk & have money to contribute Less fixed income investments more aggressive bonds and mutual funds • More offensive • lose more S & P – gain moreMore capital gains .. Why?
Aggressive • Want substantially outperform marketseasily lose 1/3 of money in a few months! • small cap, sector stocks or mutual funds (few fixed income mutual funds) • Younger – more time; want lots of money fast & have enough income to lose money Lots capital gains