IFB70: The 3 Major Types of Investment Risk and How to Combat Them

 
Welcome to Investing for Beginners podcast this is episode 70. Tonight Andrew and I are going to discuss risk, we’re going to talk about all the different types of risks there are with investing and we have a very interesting show coming up for you.
So without any further ado I’m going to turn over to Andrew and he’s going to start us off.
Andrew: yeah so when I think about risk and when many people define risk and whether you talk to investment advisor you talk to maybe an individual investor who is more experienced and kind of understand what the risks are when it comes to investing your money.
Well there’s kind of like three major ones so we’ll discuss each of those and it’s very important to talk about risk and think about risk. If you go back to the very basic definition of an investment which I always love to refer to when I’m talking about dividends.
But if you say investment 101 what is that it’s essentially money that you put it you put money at risk and in order to be compensated for that risk you have a reward you have gains you have an income stream and that’s essentially what an investment is.
And that’s no matter how what kind of investment you’re making that’s going to be how it works even if you do something like as simple as lending money to somebody and charging them an interest rate there’s going to be risk there. There’s risks that you lose all your money because some of the skips town and then they don’t pay you those payments right.
And so obviously our shows focus a lot on the stock market we’ll talk about the stock market risks and some of the various factors that maybe somebody who’s a little bit more green or if that’s the right term somebody more new to the market some of these not as educated they might not have thought about these different things.
It’s important to think about them important to learn them but also important to have a solution right to be able to understand that there is risk but historically and moving forward there are different ways to mitigate that risk and it can help it can help your overall returns it can help the type of results that you will see from your investing.
And so make sure that’s something that you’re thinking about and you are forming your strategy in order in order to fight those risks.
The first one this is very common commonly talked about in finance it’s a market risk and so just the fact that you’re in the stock market in general you’re going to have market risk. Another way it’s kind of referred to as it’s called systemic risk and basically it’s the risk that you get for putting yourself into the system.
This is something that you are not able to really have an easy solution to go against. So if you think about the other two risks so a big one is business risk and that’s the risk of a stock you’re owning of the company going bankrupt that’s called unsystematic risk and then you also have like interest rate risk.
With market risk you can’t diversify your way out of it so for unsystematic risk this is business risk a business of any one stock losing a lot of value or even going bankrupt and you lose your whole investment.
You can the way you counter that is by reinvesting I’m sorry not reinvesting uh the way you counter that is by diversifying if you have enough eggs in the basket and one goes bad one cracks at least you have those nine other eggs those 19 other eggs and so you still have a big part of your investment capital intact.
With market risk you cannot diversify that away unless you spread out unless you put less money into the market so because it’s stock market risk away.
You can essentially combat that is by holding different types of assets and so that...