The problem with playing it safe

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What may appear to be a safe investment could turn out to be the opposite. There is no such thing as a sure thing but, asks Nick Dewhirst, are some investments safer than others?

Crash. And yet another generation of investors discovers to its cost that in their pursuit of a sure thing, they in fact bought something highly risky. This time they discovered that one can not only lose a fortune in bonds, but also be unlucky enough to find the remains of their holdings frozen. Too many will learn the wrong lesson and decide never again to touch the object of their new-found loathing. Instead they will become suckers for the next sure thing to be dreamed up by the next cohort of snake oil salesmen. Instead the lesson that investors should learn is that risk and reward a...

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