Risk/Return Mismatches And Investment Value Creation

Excerpted from Dynamic Real Estate Investment Risk Management: Practical Value Creation Strategies for Volatile Markets by Darin Bifani

When most people think about investing, the prospect of gain is often given a lot more attention than the possibility of loss, principally because human existence is mainly driven by the endless siren call of optimism. In the boardrooms of the world’s largest firms, the offices of startup companies and the streets that serve as the stage for millions of commercial transactions every day, it is this belief that things will be better that causes the wheels of the financial system and our economies to continually turn.