​ Return Is Risk: "​Generous Yields Should Have Alerted Them to Risks". Today'​s New York Times has the quote of the week in a story "Summer School For Investors Is in Session". Columnist Gretchen Morgenson discusses the CDO (​collateralized debt obligation and mortgage market meltdown, saying, "Investors bought into the myth of highly rated securities even though their generous yields should have alerted them to risks." We'​re always been believers that risk equals return, that there'​s no free lunch, and that you can learn everything you need to know about an investment by just looking at the yield. The article also has a chart entitled, "Everybody Gets AAA".

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