A completely risk-free investment is pretty much a unicorn. Even cash in the bank loses value over time as inflation rises. Hedging is a word obnoxious trader types use to describe investment strategies aimed at protecting your portfolio from losing money. Traders mostly hedge using derivative products, but I steer clear of the d-word as much as I can. Does that mean I can't protect my portfolio from risk? In this episode of The Fat Wallet Show, Simon and I try to figure out if there's a space for hedging for a boring long-term index investor like me. Spoiler alert: There is. Kristia

A completely risk-free investment is pretty much a unicorn. Even cash in the bank loses value over time as inflation rises. Hedging is a word obnoxious trader types use to describe investment strategies aimed at protecting your portfolio from losing money. Traders mostly hedge using derivative products, but I steer clear of the d-word as much as I can. Does that mean I can't protect my portfolio from risk? In this episode of The Fat Wallet Show, Simon and I try to figure out if there's a space for hedging for a boring long-term index investor like me. Spoiler alert: There is. Kristia

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The Fat Wallet Show is a show about questions. It's about admitting that we don't know everything, but that we're willing to learn. Most of all, it's about understanding as much as we can to make us all better investors. 

Phrases like, "I'm not sure" or, "Let me look that up and get back to you" or, "I don't know" don't exist in the financial services industry. If you ever had a financial question you were too embarrassed to ask, you know what we're talking about. In this business, appearances matter, and nobody wants to seem like they don't know how things work or what the outlook is for the buchu industry. It's easy to excuse that little vanity, except that people in the investment industry are meant to service investors - people like you and me who need to figure out what to do with our money. 

There's no such thing as a stupid question in this show. If you have unanswered financial questions, this is your opportunity to have them answered in a way that even I can understand. Pop them to us at ask@justonelap.com.

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The Fat Wallet Show is a show about questions. It's about admitting that we don't know everything, but that we're willing to learn. Most of all, it's about understanding as much as we can to make us all better investors. Phrases like, "I'm not sure" or, "Let me look that up and get back to you" or, "I don't know" don't exist in the financial services industry. If you ever had a financial question you were too embarrassed to ask, you know what we're talking about. In this business, appearances matter, and nobody wants to seem like they don't know how things work or what the outlook is for the buchu industry. It's easy to excuse that little vanity, except that people in the investment industry are meant to service investors - people like you and me who need to figure out what to do with our money. There's no such thing as a stupid question in this show. If you have unanswered financial questions, this is your opportunity to have them answered in a way that even I can understand. Pop them to us at ask@justonelap.com.

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