Key finding presentation

1. Investment Basics
Yeshanew Belayneh
Major: Economics
Minor: Finance, Mathematics

2. Agendas
• Goldman Sachs Group
• Investment
• Risk profile
• Diversification
• Asset allocation
• Rebalancing

3. Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
• Investment banking
• Investment management
• Securities services

4. What is investment?
• how you make your money grow, or
appreciate

5. Risk profile
• What is your investment
– objective?
• Preservation of capital
• Regular income
• Growth in capital
– horizon?
• Short, medium, or long term
– personality?
• Risk tolerance

6. Simple ways to minimize risk
• Diversification
• Asset allocation

7. Simple ways to minimize risk cont.
• Rebalancing

8. Conclusion
• Risk tolerance/aversion
• Investment timeframe
• Appropriate saving/investment vehicles
• Diversification