Dan Dupont maintains that reducing risk by reducing exposure to over-valued stocks is the key to long term success as an investor. The cost of valuation risk is potentially far greater than the cost waiting for opportunities.

Dan Dupont is a portfolio manager at Fidelity Investments Canada.

He manages Fidelity Canadian Large Cap Fund and co-manages Fidelity NorthStar Fund with legendary manager Joel Tilinghast. They are respectively rated 5 and 4 stars by Morningstar.

He is also sub-portfolio manager of Fidelity Monthly income, Fidelity Income Allocation Fund, and Fidelity North Star Balanced Fund.