Risk versus Return, Return versus Risk? Real estate or shares, gold or bonds? How should investors find the right type of investment for them?
Engineers at Propertini.com have taken a little-known mathematical technique and applied this to historical performance of the main asset classes including equities, bonds, real estate, gold and hedge funds. The technique uses every piece of information contained in the history of the historical price performance and provides a set of rankings of the asset classes by the investors target return.
Just like an understanding of the combustion engine isn’t required to drive a car, an understanding of the math isn’t required to be able to use this results of this analysis. However, this doesn’t stop us lifting the hood and taking a look underneath. We hope this graphic helps navigate this high octane technique and to present the results in the simplest and most intuitive way possible.