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by crooked-v 2316 days ago
From my experience working for a company in the real estate investment industry, the biggest gap in investor understanding is in risk vs projected return rate. Almost everyone including accredited investors gravitate towards anything with the highest potential return rate, even when there's great big up-front warnings about a given investment having X, Y, and Z risk factors.

With that in mind, even just forcing investors to pass a simple test about risk in different areas of investment (bonds, index funds, major real estate types, etc) would go a long way.