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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: George Coyne who wrote (670106)1/28/2005 3:37:36 PM
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"limited options will limit the POTENTIAL large gains, but more importantly, they will substantially reduce the long term downside risk!"

No, limited options DON'T 'reduce risk', they INCREASE risk.

That is the very basis for Modern Portfolio Theory (otherwise known as 'don't have all your eggs in one, or just a few, baskets'), for which the Nobel Prize in Economics was granted.
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