The bull market has also worked against the conservative strategies of many of these funds.

Buying such insurance sounds like a very conservative strategy, and it is.

But he says that "people tend to sacrifice long-term returns" with such a conservative strategy.

"We took a conservative strategy," he says, "of building the company up in little bites rather than great big swallows."

"But I decided it was important to reallocate a bit and move things into a more conservative strategy."

Such an outlook calls for a fairly conservative strategy.

Chrysler had been pursuing a conservative strategy to raise its share price.

A conservative strategy is also reasonable in patients who travel frequently to malarious areas.

The manager knew it was possible to follow a more conservative strategy, by moving out of stocks, into bonds.

In other areas, however, Nickelodeon is departing from its conservative strategy.