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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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Inflation Expectations: A Dubious Survey

The Big Picture

Consider : Questioning investors as to their risk tolerance does not typically result in an accurate description of their true tolerance for drawdowns and lower returns; instead, we get a number highly dependent upon the performance of equity markets over the prior three to six months.

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Personal finance links: peaks and valleys

Abnormal Returns

Podcasts Jeff Ptak and Christine Benz talk with William Bernstein about the update version of his book "The Four Pillars of Investing." nytimes.com) Investing Are older investors now too exposed to the stock market? morningstar.com) On average, people overestimate their risk tolerance.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (June 3-4)

Nerd's Eye View

Also in industry news this week: How Goldman Sachs’ RIA custodial platform is leveraging the resources of its parent company as it seeks to build momentum amidst a highly competitive environment among custodians How NASAA has changed the substance and/or scoring of the Series 63, 65, and 66 exams From there, we have several articles on college (..)

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Investing Money For Beginners: How To Start Investing Today!

Clever Girl Finance

Think you don’t have enough money to start investing? You can learn how to start investing for beginners today, even if you start your investing journey with just $100. Table of contents What is investing? Why is investing important? When should you start investing? How should a beginner start investing?

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How to Determine Your Client’s Risk Capacity

BlueMind

However, it should be well understood that a client’s financial profile includes their risk tolerance and their risk capacity. In this article, although we will be focusing on the latter one and why it is significant to determine your client’s risk capacity let’s first understand the difference between the two.

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Optimism vs. Pessimism: Defining Your Investing Future

Validea

” I think for most investors their degree of optimism and pessimism l ikely fluctuates with the performance of their investments and the overall market. 19% if fully invested throughout the year). And yet a $100,000 investment in the S&P would be worth just shy of $700,000 today. It’s a pretty solid response.