Managing risk in retirement investing
Diversifying your portfolio
Spreading your investments across asset classes, regions and industries can help reduce the impact of a single investment or sector performs poorly. It’s therefore important to have a retirement investment plan that holds a mix of asset classes, stocks and retirement accounts.
Taking a long-term approach
Investing for retirement is about long-term growth that happens over decades. Financial markets can be volatile, and prices may drop from time to time. When this happens it’s important to stay focused on your long-term goal and ride out any periods of temporary volatility and market downturns if you believe it has long-term growth potential.
Planning for a long life
You may need income into your 80s or 90s and your retirement investment plan can account for this. Balancing safer assets with ones that are likely to continue growing throughout your retirement is a good way to overcome this and help protect against the risk of you outliving your pension.
Regularly reviewing your portfolio
Regularly checking your retirement investments enables you to make sure that your investments are still in line with your goals, risk tolerance and time horizon so you can make any changes if necessary. Frequent checks enable you to make sure that your retirement investment plan stays on track as much as it can.
