Last week we looked at several asset categories and placed them on the risk-return chart.
No securities market comes close in size to the U.S. But when it comes to investor appetite for risk, the flow chart shows fund managers have been more apt to remain invested in higher beta emerging markets than in the advanced economies, especially basket-case Europe which is now more riskier than any of the big emerging markets, both politically and economically.
FORBES: Emerging Market Equity Flows Remain Positive, Despite Sell Trend
It will undoubtedly revive (someday), but this chart by Calculated Risk provides a good visual to how deep of a hole the US job deficit really is.
FORBES: Ugly Job Chart Just Got Uglier; Investors Doubt Washington
While it does pain me a bit to see my favorite stocks extend a bit without me, I will always tend toward the more compelling risk-reward areas on the chart.
The tilt portfolio has returned 12.3% annually since 1978, with less risk than the Wilshire 5000 (see chart, next page).
Malnutrition is associated with over a third of children's deaths and is the single most important risk factor in many diseases (see chart).
Note in the chart on page 128 how Singapore's risk level, although still low next to Indonesia's, has shot upward.
Note in the chart on page 61 how Singapore's risk level, although still low compared with Indonesia's, has shot upward.
Each has complementary investment styles and thus has resulted in a very nice, overall combined portfolio risk and return profile, with a very, very smooth chart.
Take, for example, one indicator of the market's appetite for risk, the spread between swaps of fixed- and floating-rate interest payments (see chart).
Since the last week of September the apparent risk of a Commerzbank default, on the basis of derivative prices, has nearly trebled (see chart).
In other words, his approach to investing was to construct stories so that the chart fit his expectations, and in the process, our investing friend may have put his portfolio at risk.
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