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Risk and Return
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By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Tell the risk of a fall from the risk of inflation.
- Work out what a typical year’s fall could mean for your balance.
- Read a projection as a range rather than a prediction.
- Explain what changes as you move through the seven risk bands.
- Spot the choices that can make a market fall cause lasting harm.
7 parts · about 55 minutes
- 1What risk actually means: it drops, and it falls behind
- 2Measuring the drop: one number, and what it can’t tell you
- 3Why falls hurt twice, and what time can and can’t fix
- 4The seven bands, and the two reads behind your risk ceiling
- 5Thinking in ranges: Lower, Expected, Higher
- 6When it goes wrong: crashes, and the year the bonds fell too
- 7Your own band, and the one question to ask before changing it
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