Friday, September 3, 2010

pg. 67-73 Diversification

Something you already knew or something you learned.

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31 comments:

  1. The thing that caught my attention was the term unsystematic risk. It is the risk that is associated with individual stock failing.

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  2. The thing that caught my attention was if you put everything in to one stock, you can fail miserably because if that stock does bad, you don't have any other stocks to rely on.

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  3. Yeah I think that if you buy many different kinds of stocks you will be successful. If you buy all of the same thing then you may not gain any money.

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  4. The thing that caught my attention is in order to protect yourself against volatility, use asset allocation as you get closer to the time you withdrawl.

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  5. The thing that cought my attention was if you put ur money into one stock and it does bad u will lose a lot of money.

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  6. something that caught my attention was that if you want the safest way to buy a stock buy a well diversified fund. which means you own many different stocks

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  7. The thing that caught my attention was there are statistical models, and they are based on historical performance.

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  8. I learned that the safest way to invest your money is by investing in many different stocks. It is very unsafe to put all of your money into one or two companies. Instead, spread your risk out to have a well-diversified fund.

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  9. I think that if you but a variety of stocks instead of buying all of the same you will make more money. If you have a variety then if some are going up and some are going down you still have a chance to make money.

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  10. I thought it was interesting how if you diversify, it lowers your risk of losing a lot of money in one stock. It balances out the risks and benefits.

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  11. It talked about the Enron stock market crash, I always heard about it but I never understood what it was and now I know how big of a deal that is.

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  12. Something that caught my eye was that you should invest in so many stocks if you want to be successful

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  13. I thought It was important that you shouldn't put all your money in one stock . I learned about the econ market crash .

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  14. If you diversify you are at risk of losing money in your stocks.

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  15. It is important to invest in many different stocks and diversify especially it is good for long term uses.

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  16. Diversification helps you in the stock market

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  17. If you invest in one thing and it drops and fails than your out all your money but if you diversify its not as much risk and you wont be out of all your money if one thing falls

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  18. You should diversify your stocks and you will do better than just going with one thing

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  19. Diversification spreads out the risk of losing all of your money between many different companies. It is safer than investing all of your money into one company.

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  20. The thing that caught my eye would be spreading your stocks out in different companies lowers the risk

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  21. if you put your money into one stock you could end up losing a lot of money where as if you put your money into many different stocks you could still gain money if one or two of your stocks does bad.

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  22. I think it is important to "diversify" which means to invest in different companies, products, etc. Also buy more that one stock.

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  23. most stockholders own shares in 50+ stocks

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  24. i think it is a good idea to diversify by putting different amounts of money into different kind of companies because the big named companies dont always win

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  25. i agree Blake. It is important to diversify.

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  26. invest in different stocks to make money.

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  27. the number of stocks where it is safe to diversify in is 8 and up.
    some recomend more and go all the way up to 50 or even in the 100's. either way the more the better

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  28. If u work try to save some money because it can help you in the long run.

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  29. Andrew Brown

    That the risk of associated with an individual stock is called unsystematic risk.

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  30. When you divided your profits in to different types of stocks your less at risk to lose but gain money in the long run.

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  31. Saving money is a good key to having success in making money. Big name companies aren't always good to invest in either.

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