Oscar /os-car/ [2 sylls.] as a boys' name is pronounced OS-ker. It is of Old English origin, and the meaning of Oscar is spear of the gods. Also possibly from the Gaelic phrase os cara, meaning friend of the deer.James Macpherson used the name in his Ossianic poems. Napoleon, an admirer of those works, imposed it on his little French godson, who ascended the throne of Sweden as Oscar I (or Oskar I).lso possibly from the Gaelic phrase os cara, meaning friend of the deer. James Macpherson used the name in his Ossianic poems. Napoleon, an admirer of those works, imposed it on his little French godson, who ascended the throne of Sweden as Oscar I (or Oskar I).
The next economic risk factor is inflation, which can be used to hedge other factors, such as cost-of-living adjustments. Indexed pensioners and active employees with final average plan liability formulas (where salaries are often highly tied to inflation) are types of liabilities that have inflation characteristics.
If you own an international investment, events within that country can affect your investment (political risk and currency risk, to name two). There are other types of risk. How easy or hard it is to cash out of an investment when you need to is called liquidity risk. Another risk factor is tied to how many or how few investments you hold. Generally speaking, the more financial eggs you have in one basket, say all your money in a single stock, the greater risk you take (concentration risk ...