Wealth is actually an abstract. Sometimes it is also defined as fecundity or a sort of sustainable appending. Wealth actually is a primary goal of all the investors and is usually measured by the amount of “actual expendable income” which they have in their portfolio.
The way a wealth is defined then dictates the approach of a person towards the investments. There are many ways to manage your risks. Each of these has many benefits, depending upon the behaviors of the investors or their willingness to take on some risky ventures.
Individual Risk
It is a risk mostly concerning the personal wealth of an investor. How much an investor can afford losing? And, how long can an investor sustain without touching his funds. It is essential to assess as to how much an investor desires to gain and what is his time span?
Managing Individual Risk
You can easily calculate this for a short term. For a long duration, the process may require some in-depth study and calculations.
Market Risk
It is a risk which is linked with the various markets. Like, is the investor capable of surviving a stock slump? This factor would decide if an investor is capable of managing mutual funds or he should just stick to a blue chip stocks. This will also decide whether an investor should buy a nice house in good location which would appreciate by 20 % in the 5 years or just go for some penny stocks which might double in one year.
Managing Market Risk
It is the risks linked to the area in which investment has been made. A simple way here is that investor must stick only to the markets which he fully understands.
Another good way is to avoid any purchase in two fields simultaneously. Like real estate and gold are rock solid fields, but when they rise, stock tends to dive down or vice verse.
So, by fully understanding the expectations and risk in one, two and four decades, the investor can easily generate a nice diversification package. Always remember that there are just two ways of managing the risks, firstly you should build a cushion against them and then secondly ignore them!
Education
Infact education is an excellent buffer available to you against the risk. There is no magic available to save investor from the inherent market risk expect a sound in-depth knowledge of the markets.