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Task 4. Find nouns in the previous tasks that can be used to make word combinations with the verbs below. Then use some of the word combinations to complete the sentences.Date: 2015-10-07; view: 427. Types of investor Typed words. Task 2. Read the following passage and pay attention to bold · Some want regular income from the investments – less concerned with size of their capital. · Some want to preserve (keep) their capital – avoiding risks. If the goal is capital preservation, the asset manager usually allocates more money to bonds than stocks. · Others want to accumulate or build up capital – taking more risks. If the goal is growth or capital accumulation, the portfolio will probably include more shares than bonds. Shares have better profit potential than bonds, but are also more volatile – their value can increaser or decrease more in a short period of time.
Task 3. Match the investments goals (1 – 3) with the statements (a – c). 1.capital preservation 2. growth 3. income a.I want to accumulate wealth, but I know that this means taking risks and buying securities with volatile prices that could go down as well as up. b.I want a regular return every year, because I need that money, even if this means I might have to risk losing some of my capital. c.I definitely don't want to risk losing any of my capital, even if this means that some years I get a very low return.
· accumulate _______________________ · allocate ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ · diversify ________________________ · manage ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________
1. I don't want to pay a bank to _____________ my _____________; I can do it myself. 2. I have lots of different types of securities, because I decided to _____________ my _____________. 3. As an asset manager, I discuss clients' needs and objectives and then we decide how to ____________ their ____________. 4. If my clients want to ____________ ___________, I take more risks, and buy a lot of stocks.
Task 5. Learn the active vocabulary.
Reading / comprehension activities
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