Risk management in the circumstances of spontaneous financial systems plays a specific role. Essential in the process of building up the investment portfolio is that they must follow the principle of diversification. Due to the possibility to invest funds both in Russian shares and bonds and in foreign securities and use the whole stock of derivatives they can significantly reduce risks.
Direct access to trading at the largest commodity exchanges of the word opens up additional opportunities to the investors. Investors use futures and options of underlying assets such as oil, gold, stock (stock exchange) indices and join them to derivatives of fixed profitability (fixed income), thus they produce investment strategies that provide for protection of capital in conjunction with preserved possibility to obtain unlimited income in the favorable market circumstances.