Saturday , 2 November 2024

Lorimer Wilson

Understanding Systematic Risk, Modern Portfolio Theory and the Efficient Frontier (4K Views)

Risk inherent to the entire market or market segment is referred to as systematic risk and modern portfolio theory says that a blend of investments has the potential to increase overall return for a given level of risk, and/or decrease risk for a given return that the investor is trying to achieve. The expected risk/return relationship is known as the efficient frontier. [If you have a portfolio of investments then you need to fully understand what all this really means and how you can apply it to your portfolio makeup to enhance returns under any circumstances. Let me do just that.] Words: 1325

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Busy Last Week? Here Are the 5 Most Read Articles You Might Have Missed

We all live extremely busy lives and often fail to keep up with the most informative articles posted on the internet. munKNEE.com searches the internet for such articles and posts the best in an edited and abridged format (every day for the sake of clarity and brevity) to ensure a fast and easy read. Below are links, with introductory paragraphs, to the 5 most popular for this past week in descending order. Words: 438

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Lassonde on Gold: "What can we expect? I think we can expect fireworks…." Here’s Why (+2K Views)

“There’s no cliff here. There’s no need to panic whatsoever...[In] the two previous bull markets in gold, 1980 and 1934, gold ended at essentially a 1/1 ratio with the Dow Jones and the Dow today is over 13,000. Would I be surprised to see gold past $10,000? No. I know it sounds crazy but it sounds a heck of a lot less crazy than it did five or six years ago.”

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Statistics Canada: Typical Borrower Owes $115,000+, Albertans $158,000+, Home "Owners" $161,000+

StatsCan released a major report Friday that outlines the overall debt situation of Canadians... It only measured what is owed by Canadians who carry any form of debt, not those that are debt free, and according to the report, the typical borrower owed an average of $114,400 as of 2009. That number, however,...is almost certainly higher today due to...[the fact that] low lending rates have been at 1% since early 2008...More worrisome could be that two-thirds of all Canadians who carry debt owe more than the average. Words: 585

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The Surprising Side Effects of Rising College Costs

The rising cost of college tuition translates into many students re-evaluating higher education, their future professional careers as well as other major life decisions. Find out more in our very enlightening infographic on The Surprising Side Effects of Rising College Costs.

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