Station 4: Understanding Asset Classes (UI)

Description

Understanding Asset Classes continues the theme of diversification by focusing on the building blocks of investing, namely the many types of "egg baskets" and their classification and characteristics. These include cash, stocks, bonds, property and commodities, along with more exotic and less tangible instruments such as options and futures.

We focus on stocks and bonds and examine their behavioural traits, including historical risk and return profiles, the factors that make them tick, their sensitivity to market and economic events, and the unique inverse relationship between them that makes these instruments such amicable partners in portfolio construction.

We discover that, far from being homogeneous groups, stocks and bonds come in many shades of grey, and their spectrum of risk and return is wider than you might imagine. We also put property under the microscope, applying tried and tested criteria to selecting an investment property to buy.

System Requirements

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