How to Measure Investment Risk & Protect Against it

Investing is Risky

The Investments class I teach at a local university focuses on investing risk and return. We talk about the risk that you’ll lose money if you invest and your stock and bond funds decline in price. There’s also the risk that your purchasing power will erode from inflation. According to a recent Fortune-CNN article food prices increased 2.6% last year. Although, in my region, it seems as though the food increases were quite a bit more. Although the CPI (consumer price index)...