What’s on the Asset Classes poster
A 7-row table: Asset · Typically · Risk.
Broad characteristics, not guarantees.
- Cash — Stable, loses to inflation — Very low
- Government bonds — Income, lower growth — Low
- Corporate bonds — More income, more risk — Medium-low
- Shares (equities) — Higher long-run growth — High, volatile
- Property — Income and growth, illiquid — Medium-high
- Commodities — Volatile, no income — High
- Crypto — Highly volatile, speculative — Very high
General education, not financial advice. Past behaviour is not a promise about the future.
Questions about the Asset Classes poster
- What’s on the Asset Classes poster?
- A 7-row table: Asset · Typically · Risk. Broad characteristics, not guarantees. Cash — Stable, loses to inflation — Very low; Government bonds — Income, lower growth — Low; Corporate bonds — More income, more risk — Medium-low; Shares (equities) — Higher long-run growth — High, volatile; Property — Income and growth, illiquid — Medium-high; Commodities — Volatile, no income — High; Crypto — Highly volatile, speculative — Very high. General education, not financial advice. Past behaviour is not a promise about the future.
- Who is the Asset Classes poster for?
- Asset Classes belongs to the Money section rather than to a school year, because money is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning investing can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Asset Classes poster?
- Different assets behave differently at different times. That is the entire argument for holding several. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Asset Classes belongs on the wall where that money work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Asset Classes?
- Bonds, Time in the Market and Diversification sit alongside Asset Classes in the Money section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.BondsTime in the MarketDiversification
- Is the Asset Classes poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Asset Classes downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Money section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Asset Classes poster print at?
- Asset Classes is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Asset Classes loses nothing.Printing guide
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