Thursday 16 August 2012

Risk is Manageable: Risk-Avoidance Strategies

Master Investors use one of the four-risk avoidance strategies:
1.  Don't invest.
2.  Reduce risk (the key to Warren Buffett's approach).
3.  Actively manage risk (the strategy George Soros uses so astonishingly well).
4.  Manage risk actuarially.

There is a fifth risk-avoidance that is highly recommended by the majority of investment advisors:  diversification.  But to Master Investors, diversification is for the birds.

No successful investor restricts himself to just one of these four risk-avoidance strategies.  Some - like Soros - use them all.

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