Chopping Stocks to Lessen Your Risk
As a subscriber to Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine, every once in a while I run across a piece of information that I find really valuable. In this month's edition, there was an article about hedging your bets and one of the topics was the impact if slightly reducing your equity exposure to reduce the volatility of your portfolio. Sure, you give up some future gains but the difference is not worth doing given the volatility and additional risk more equity exposure gives you. In the …