Appropriate investment advice for individual investors is to invest financial wealth in an asset that is not highly correlated with their human capital in order to maximize diversification benefits over the entire portfolio. For people with “safe” human capital, it may be appropriate to invest their financial assets aggressively. Mortality Risk and Life Insurance. Because human capital is often the biggest asset an investor has, protecting human capital from potential risks should also be part of overall investment advice. A unique risk aspect of an investor’s human capital is mortality risk—the loss of human capital to the household in the unfortunate event of premature death of the worker
