A decade of Evenlode: The top ten risks for income investors

Top tips for navigating choppy waters

Over the past decade, our long-term dividend growth investment philosophy has not changed, but we have evolved our risk management framework.

The older I get, the more I believe our primary job as investors is to manage risk on behalf of our clients. Managing risk will never eliminate risk, of course. There is no such thing as a perfect company or investment case; mistakes are inevitable and humility essential. Also, some risks (particularly geopolitical and economic risks) are out of one's control. But controlling certain key factors should help a long-term investor to 'stay the course' and minimise the impact of mistakes when they do inevitably happen. Below are the ten broad categories we use to think about risk at Ev...