What's the Risk?

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What's the Risk? episodes

April 22, 2022 Greenlights & Redlights
What's the difference between the careers of Matthew McConaughey and Nicolas Cage over the last decade? It might be Blaine Lourd.
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11 min
April 06, 2022 The Cheat Codes To Successful Investing
It’s no secret many people are out there looking for a cheat code to lose weight or get fitter. While there’s also those that are prone to believing there is a cheat code for investing.
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7 min
March 31, 2022 Heirlooms - The Emotions Surrounding Inherited Investments
Stories about investing $10,000 and turning it into a million are staples in the financial media? Do people actually do this? Yes, some people hold for decades and have a massive amount of wealth concentrated in on position. Then they leave it to their relatives, which poses a question: how do they deal with this financial heirloom?
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8 min
March 29, 2022 The Lies of Melissa Caddick
There was no grand plan behind Melissa Caddick's disgusting ruse. It was common theft, so how can investors avoid similar frauds?
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10 min
March 25, 2022 Insights From Your Fellow Investors
Why do some investors react, and others don’t? Can investors overcome it and become either disinterested or resilient? It can depend on a variety of factors. Who you are, your background, your education, your profession, or your outlook on life. Mix these factors in with whatever is confronting a person at a particular moment, and it may prompt a particular outcome.

But we asked some clients, who’ve traditionally been calm, how they handle volatility. It’s not that complicated. Here’s what they told us:
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9 min
February 24, 2022 Content, Conflict & Russia
There has never been more information available, but the downside is it has never been harder to sort? With Russia declaring war on Ukraine, and the most negative outcomes emphasized, what should investors do?

Investing is navigating your emotions through history as it’s being written. Consuming endless streams of speculation, potential worst-case scenarios, and toxic waste, otherwise known as content, is unlikely to take our emotions to a good place.
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9 min
February 17, 2022 Concentrated Employee Stock Positions
Being concentrated in one company is great if the company provides strong performance, but it becomes potential planning headache. Investors generally want some assurances of certainty when they’re planning for the future. In the absence of certainty, investors can take leaps of faith. When things are good that means having faith that things will continue as they are, until they don’t and stock prices do fall and assumptions can go up in smoke.
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10 min
February 16, 2022 Using & Abusing Warren Buffett Quotes
Heard of Warren Buffett? You probably have and you've probably heard of his quotes. Investors have a habit of applying Warren Buffett's quotes to the wrong scenarios to cover up their mistakes.

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7 min
February 11, 2022 The Greys of Ethical Awareness
Many investors are rushing to join the ESG investing movement. As you’d expect, there’s no shortage of fund managers rushing to cater to these investors. History has shown if the investment industry thinks they can flog you hot idea, they’ll flog you that hot idea, but before you jump in head first, consider the label and the fine print and ask yourself what are you trying to achieve with ESG investing?
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13 min
February 03, 2022 The Historic Market Crash
We've all been panicked by a forecast that the sharemarket might crash, but the sharemarket rarely crashes. So why does the media report a market crash forecast with the utmost seriousness, while ridiculing end of the world preachers? Let's take a look at fundamentalist preacher Harold Camping and billionaire investor Jeremy Grantham as an example.
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12 min

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What's the Risk? is a simple investment series we hope investors can use to better understand index and portfolio performance, along with addressing some investment questions and…