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Investment and risk

3.2 Risk and returns - types of risk that may affect investment returns

In this section we identify several forms of risk that an investor could be exposed to with the different types of assets they may select.

This is the risk that some/all of the individual capital invested may be lost. The possibility of this risk usually incre...

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...es of security to be held and how they are likely to react (eg less than, more than, in line) with the market as a whole.
The risk th...

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...nvestments.
The effect of a fall or rise in intere...

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... fixed rate and changes in the market.
The ...

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...tal.
Poor management of a company or the decline of a bu...

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...any or the decline of a business sector in general.
Where investments are in overseas currencies or foreign assets, an appreciation of the pound can reduce the value of these investments to t...

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...ents are in overseas currencies or foreign assets, an appreciation of the pound can reduce the value of these investments to the portfolio.
Different objectives of Go...

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...e on relevant assets held.
An investment may be difficult to sell ...

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...ult to sell eg unlisted company shares.
The counterparty to a transa...

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...provide the maximum returns.

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