One’s attitude towards investing may be coloured by a multiple of different – and sometimes competing – considerations.

‘Altitude’ is generally accepted as meaning the height of an object above a certain benchmark (e.g. a plane in flight achieves what the pilot will convey to passengers as ‘cruising altitude’ meaning how far the plane is above sea or ground level).

One’s attitude towards investing is likely to be heavily influenced by age.

While not a hard and fast rule, young investors are more likely to take greater risks than older investors; the rationale being that, if things go sour, younger investors have more time to ‘get things right’.

Well, yes, though not always.