First of all, ensure that as you approach retirement you are invested in safe assets.

Russia is one of the safer assets in emerging markets now.

It's the safest asset in the world by far.

H'es trying to get people to abandon stocks and invest in "safe" assets.

Will investors flee stocks and corporate bonds for safer assets?

The word in the foreign exchange markets is that traders are shifting out of the euro and back into "safer assets".

By contrast, money funds back their deposits with highly liquid and relatively safe assets - a much better match.

Gold is the only safe and liquid asset left.

This can be seen in a very small markets to generate safe assets where to store value from one period to the next.

These large banks would be required to invest insured deposits only in truly safe assets, like government securities.