Accepting Risk

  

Unlike their arch rival, Bag-o-Glass sold exclusively to preschoolers. Bag-o-Marbles decided that they did not need to insure against injuries to kids using its product. They decided to accept risk in their business, and this financial bet is an element of risk management. Bag-o-Marbles did the math on the $10 million a year their insurance company wanted to insure for injuries sustained by kids putting marbles in, um, wrong places...and it was just too much money. They'd rather self-insure, and hope that business continues to roll.

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Finance a la shmoop how are risk and reward related? or

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interrelated okay so here's an illustration of risk you're in a golf [golfball near a golf hole]

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tournament on the first tee of a hole with a narrow fairway if you take just a

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half swing your ball won't go very far but you also likely won't end up here [golfer gives a half swing and ball goes towards the hole]

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it'll almost certainly fit nicely in the fairway and it's likely you'll need

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three or four half swing strokes to reach the green if you're cool with [golfer taking multiple shots and reaches the green]

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shooting 28 over par or a hundred today well then maybe these half

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swings are your ticket to happiness sometimes a score of a hundred wins the [golfer stood beside a scoreboard with a score of 100]

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purple turkey that is you are taking less risk and are totally fine being

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rewarded less all right now meet Corey Mcilshmoop he wants the big score

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lots of strokes under par and he's willing to risk a lot to get there. His [Corey Mcilshmoop swinging a golf club]

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ball either goes 340 yards and lands on the green setting him up for an eagle

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putt it goes out of bounds with a vengeance there, ouch.. all right well on

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the investing golf course like this one generally speaking riskier investments [golf course made into an investment course]

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are things that don't have a long track record of success like compare the

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coca-cola company with a new IPO of whatever.com what are the odds that in [a comparison of coca cola vs. whatever.com]

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five years people are still drinking sugared fizzy water well pretty good

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right now how about the odds of a billion people still being enamored of [myspace and whatever.com with number of people liking the website rising]

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whatever com yeah much less clear like less clear than crystal pepsi.. Risky can

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also mean private investments in two kids plugging away inside of a garage [Kids working on a project in a garage on laptops]

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be buzz and billy-bob making a whoopee cushion that pushes the bounds of

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realism yeah..risky can also be just a company that doesn't pay a dividend if a

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company does pay a divy, you at least get the dividend back each year as you slowly get your

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initial investment returned to you you can make money even if the stock price [company's share price, dividend and yield]

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doesn't go up in the case where stock pays no dividend your instead betting [person puts chips onto a roulette table]

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everything that the company will just grow but growth companies with no

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dividend while that's all well and good think things

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like Facebook and Amazon and uber but if the company doesn't grow well then bad [whatever.com falling on the floor]

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things happen you've got no dividend and the share prices declined and so the

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