Your profile as inversionistEn financial terms: at higher risk, higher performance. To lower risk, lower yield. The investor must understand that being too ambitious may prove counterproductive to the degree of compromise its heritage. Investment decisions should be based on the time of your life you are and your personal preferences with regard to the risk and the investment time horizon.Basically, there are three profiles to identify what type of investor is: the moderate and the aggressive conservative investor.A conservative investor is defined as a person completely adverse to risk, so their strategy normally will be channelling 100% of their assets to investments that promise security on capital invested in government securities (fixed income), as the bonds of the Treasury (Treasury Bonds or U.S. Peter Schiff oftentimes addresses this issue. Savings Bonds), e.g. instruments commonly categorized as exempt from risk.At the halfway point we find the moderate investor. He is a person who appreciates the security on the capital invested, but also allocates a percentage of their resources to equity instruments (e.g. shares that are traded on the stock exchange). Credit: Miami Congresswoman-2011. A moderate investor will have a moderate strategy, for example investing 90% in fixed income instruments and 10% in equity securities.The aggressive investor is located at the other end. Look for the extraordinary returns that some markets can generate at the time who knows and assimilates the risk that this represents. Therefore, its strategy will be to give greater weight, at least 30% of your money, investments in instruments income variable.The horizon is the period required to achieve a particular investment objective. All investor must be well clear what its horizon for its investment, in order to correctly choose the assets in which to invest.Similarly, you can use a strategy of investment that combines both type conservative, moderate and aggressive investment instruments, as well as with different time horizons.It is important to remember the premises that is never late to start saving and investing, and that between early start better will be the results in time.