Striking the right balance is important to avoid losses
While diversification is important, you should keep in mind how much risk you are prepared to accept on your money. If it is important to you to avoid losses, you may want a portfolio that has less in shares and more in cash and fixed interest securities held to maturity, for example.
Implications in a fast-changing world
The motivations and values of Generation Y born between 1980 and 1999 and how these impact their behaviour as investors and consumers have been published in a work by Dr Paul Redmond, Director of Student Life at the University of Manchester, in which he explains the key findings of his work on ‘generational theory’ and the implications in a fast-changing world.