FinaMetrica
Commentary
Danger of Increased Risk Taking as Markets Boom
by Geoff Davey of FinaMetrica,
While some investors (and their advisors) believe risk tolerance changes with major events such as a stock market correction, typically it is an investors perception of risk that changes, which results in a change in their behavior. At the moment, many investors are buying stocks with elevated P/E ratios. Prices are going up a lot faster than corporate earnings and the risks are getting bigger. Yet people are still buying stocks.