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How to Determine Your Investment Risk Tolerance Level

WiserAdvisor

Investment and risk are two closely related concepts. Risk refers to the potential for loss or negative returns when you invest your money in a market-linked security. There are different types of risks, including market, credit, inflation, and liquidity risk, among others.

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How to Determine Your Client’s Risk Tolerance

BlueMind

Category: Clients Risk. Determining the client’s risk tolerance is not an exact science and requires you to communicate with your client. What Does The Word “Risk” Mean For Your Clients? For financial advisors and their clients, “risk” means the possibility of losing money, investment, or a business venture.

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5 Questions Using Risk Assessment Data That Help Advisors Understand Clients’ True Concerns About Risk

Nerd's Eye View

Over the years, 2 types of measurement tools have emerged as the standards for assessing risk tolerance: 1) psychometric tests, which feature a series of questions (such as, "What amount of risk do you feel you have taken with past financial decisions?") Would you agree to this investment?").

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A Pep Talk for Financial Advisors on Investing in a Declining Market

XY Planning Network

October ended with the S&P 500, Russell 3000, MSCI World Ex USA, MSCI Emerging Markets, and DJ Global Select REIT in the negative for 1-month and 3-month periods, so some clients will certainly be ready for us to answer the question, “What is it this time?”

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Investing strategies for bear markets

Nationwide Financial

Investors now have a lot on their minds — inflation, market volatility, worries about a potential recession, etc. The possibility of a bear market for stocks adds even more stress for investors. What do “bear” and “bull” mean in the stock market? A bear market is typically defined as a 20% decline from peak to trough.

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What Does the Market “Know” ?

The Big Picture

The link was to James Mackintosh’s column “ Five Not-Quite-Impossible Things the Market Believes.” But rational people can reasonably disagree on anything market-related — after all, someone has to be on the other side of your trade. As to what the market “knows:” Stop Anthropomorphizing Mr. Market.

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Three key learnings from sports to win the investment game

Truemind Capital

As many of you know, I am an investment professional. Therefore, it’s natural for me to think of analogies from table tennis that apply to winning the game of investments. Here are three fundamental qualities that you need to win in sports and investments (applicable to many sports but I will stick to table tennis here): 1.

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