Risk Tolerance

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Investing doesn't have to be overwhelming. This guide offers a simple 12-question checklist to help you evaluate any potential investment.

It's natural to become more cautious with your investments as you approach or enter retirement. Understanding what "risk" really means for you is critical.

Rebalancing your portfolio – buying and selling to maintain your desired risk level – is a common investment practice. But how you decide when to do that matters!

The risks you haven’t planned for can ultimately be the ones that put you in financial jeopardy. However, these risks are often controllable, while future returns offer limited influence, especially when it comes to the stock market.

You want to avoid “Accidents” in retirement, and every accident is a result of a risk that you knowingly or unknowingly took on. Therefore, the key to avoiding your retirement “Accidents” begins with the identification of the risks.

It’s become common practice to utilize U.S. historical data when projecting the resilience of your financial plan. However, this can potentially underestimate the risk of a significant market crash, as relying solely on U.S. data may lead to an inaccurate perception of downside risk.

Although traditional quantitative tools exist to help control risk in an investment portfolio (Sharpe ratio, Treynor ratio, etc.), these can also be misleading because risk is multidimensional and sometimes psychological.

You shouldn’t let the possibility of something happening dictate all of your financial decisions. Look at your own unique financial situation and leverage a comprehensive framework so you can ignore the news headlines and enjoy the here and now.

Is the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapse worth your concern? Maybe not directly, but it reveals valuable lessons to be learned about your liquid dollars – and investing.

Times of market volatility may cause you to second guess your investment strategy. You might assume the future looks riskier and a change is in order, but that’s not always the case.

Despite what a quick search on Google will tell you, every investment has risk.