Discuss the relationship between risk and reward when investing.

2. Describe your investment strategy for the simulation and evaluate how well it worked. As a result of this simulation, what, if anything would you do differerently if you played a new stock simulation in the future? Why would you make the changes you described?

3. Based on what you read in chapters 11, 12,& 13 describe the characteristics of an ideal investment portfolio. Why do you think these characteristics help to create an ideal portfolio? How should a portfolio change over time, especially as a person nears retirement?

4. Discuss the pros and cons of managing your own portfolio vs. having an investment "professional" manage your portfolio. (hint - several of my instructor postings have information related to this topic.) Google search: What percentage of investment managers actually earn higher returns for their clients than the market average? What is the best way to increase the chance that your portfolio will at least earn the market average?

5. What was the most interesting or surprising thing you learned as a result of this activity?