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Why Index Funds?
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Risk Management

Controlling Risk

The decision to invest in index funds will immediately simplify your investment management, reduce your investment expenses and help you earn returns consistent with an appropriate level of risk.

The next step is deciding which assets to allocate to which index funds. These decisions depend on a broad range of variables--such as your personal and financial goals, and your comfort with risk.

As you probably know, a carefully allocated higher-risk investment portfolio will generally yield higher returns--especially when viewed over the long run. But did you also know that risky securities can be combined in a portfolio to reduce the overall risk without lowering the expected return?

As experts in the statistics behind risk management, Compass Financial Services uses intelligent asset allocation to help clients maximize their expected returns at the most comfortable level of risk. Click here for a discussion of the effects of asset allocation on risk and returns.

 

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