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However, there are various strategies that can be employed in reducing the level of risk you take\nwhen investing. <\/p>
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To be successful in your investments, learning to embrace risk but doing it efficiently is core and\nour main focus in this post is to guide you on how to go about this. <\/p>
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1. Identify your risk tolerance capacity. <\/p>
2. Diversify your investment. <\/p>
3. Monitor your investments regularly. <\/p>
4. Ensure the liquidity in your portfolio is sufficient. <\/p>
5. Use the Asset Allocation Strategy.<\/p>
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Let\u2019s discuss them in detail.<\/p>
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However, what this rule is simply saying is, due to the financial obligations and age of\nthe young investor compared to the old investor, the ability for the young investor to be\nmore risk tolerant is higher. <\/p>
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This said, investing early in life will require that you channel your investment portfolio\ntowards wealth creation while for the older generation, it would be a portfolio channeled\ntowards preserving wealth but nonetheless, knowing what your risk tolerance capacity is\nwill help you figure out what investment is best with high-return value.<\/p>
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An example will be investing in Equity Mutual Funds but doing so in a variety of the\nsame class, say large, middle or small-cap equity mutual funds so that when there is a\ncrash in the market, because you portfolio is diversified, the overall investment risk is\nreduced.<\/p>
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It is recommended to do portfolio reviews once in six months because of short-term\nvolatility asset classes like equity but as a long-term investor, you can overlook this and\nonly change when there has been a long period of continuous poor performance.<\/p>
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Having an emergency fund in your portfolio that can help redeem your investments\nwhen the markets are down can help you reduce risk and avoid running up and down in\nsuch situations. Risks can be reduced once you maintain adequate liquidity.<\/p>
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Asset Allocation means investing in more than one asset class for reducing the\ninvestment risks that provides you with optimal returns.\n\nThough there are several asset allocation strategies, one is to invest in a combination of\nasset classes that are inversely correlated to each other. <\/p>
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An example is when an asset\nclass is outperforming and the other asset class underperforms such as Equity and Gold.\n\nEquity and Gold are inversely correlated to each other, so when equity outperforms,\ngold underperforms. <\/p>
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This strategy can reduce investment risk and provide optimum returns if used\neffectively. <\/p>
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There are other strategies that can help you reduce your investment risks but we\nthought that these were core and can be easily understood so that you can navigate\nseamlessly through risk management for optimal returns and avoid mistakes. <\/p>
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Which of these strategies would you need help implementing?\n\n <\/p>
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