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Financial Fitness for Life: Bringing Home the Gold Teacher Guide, National Council on Economic Education 46 L E S S O N There Is No Free Lunch in Investing LESSON DESCRIPTION Risk is inherent in all investments. In investing, there are risks you cannot control. However, other risks can be controlled. The key is to develop a risk-reward ratio with which you are comfortable. The higher the risk, the greater the potential reward. This is why there is no free lunch in investing. In this lesson, students learn about five types of risk and then compare the risks and rewards of several of the most frequently used investment vehicles. The lesson provides an overview of the investment world. This lesson is correlated with national standards for economics as well as the national guidelines for personal financial management as shown in Tables 1 and 2 in the front of the bo
