long-term risk

Investment risk for long-term investors

Investors with long investment horizons should be looking at long-term risk in a different way argues Geoff Warren, including scoping out potential future ‘paths’ or states of the world.

Geoff WarrenMay 18, 2021

Keynes and the character required for a long-term view

In the interests of educating myself I recently read Chapter 12 “The State of Long-Term Expectations” in John Maynard Keynes’ seminal economics tome General Theory. I particularly like his statement: “it needs more intelligence to defeat the forces of time and our ignorance of the future than to beat the gun”, but then I’ve always […]

Amanda WhiteNovember 16, 2011

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Long-term risks and the human factor for fiduciaries

While risk for investment portfolios has been well-studied in the light of the financial crisis – if insufficiently before – the notion of long-term risk is still underexplored, according to Roger Urwin.

GREG BRIGHTApril 6, 2011