Tag: risk

Understanding risk and reward
Financial Markets
Chris MacIntosh

Every Investor Needs to Consider These 3 Critical Things

There are three crucial things to analyze and evaluate as an investor before investing even a penny. Most investors don’t do this and instead fail to understand risk and reward correctly, making poor decision after poor decision because the key to understanding risk and reward lies in the third point.

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Drunk guy
Other
Chris MacIntosh

Risk Management Lessons From A Drunk Welshman

If I was to watch the world news every day I would be filled with a burning desire to build myself a hut in the hills, don my hazmat suit and wait for the impending collapse of humanity. I met a guy who’d done pretty much that. He was Welsh

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Soap Bubble
Financial Markets
Chris MacIntosh

The Anatomy of a Carry Trade Bubble

Last week I discussed some very important things, not the least of which was how to get rock hard abs. Equally as important is how asymmetry builds in nature and in financial markets. Today I wanted to continue the discussion. A question posed by a reader prompted me to think about

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Risk – Part I: Why We Owe It to Drugs

“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change…” Leo Buscaglia nailed it with the quote above. Ask any friends, colleagues or contacts you know who’ve enjoyed success about risk.

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This is the Biggest Risk to the World’s Economy

It’s over a decade ago now that I first began stomping around Asia and Southeast Asia in particular… longer actually but I prefer not to age myself. At first it was simple fun and adventure – a pretty girl at my side, and the very real fact that I had

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15 Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs

Gratitude… It’s more than simply being thankful for what one has. It is, I believe a core attribute for success…a necessary ingredient if you will. One of the great advantages to actively investing directly into private businesses, is that over the years I’ve managed to obtain insight into hundreds of businesses, and

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