Misunderstanding the Risk-Reward Trade-off | Fisher Investments Common Investing Mistake #3

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Jessica Smith: Many retirees believe that they need to take a cautious, low volatility approach to investing. they may want to create predictable income streams or to protect their principal and their peace of mind. Some stable, low returning investments may be right to include in your portfolio, depending on your investing goals and personal situation.

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Jessica Smith: But if you need long term portfolio growth to reach your investing goals, investing too cautiously could increase the risk you run out of money in retirement or fall short of other investing goals. Trading the stress of the stock market for the lower but more predictable returns of bonds may seem like an acceptable tradeoff. But even seemingly small differences in your average annual returns become very significant over time.

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Jessica Smith: Say you have a $500,000 portfolio. For simplicity, let's assume that if you invested it in bonds, your average annual return would-be 5%, while if you invested in stocks, your average annual return would be 9%. These two rates of return would lead to dramatically different investing results over 10, 20 or 30 years. Often, investors focus on one risk

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Jessica Smith: The risk of volatility, while ignoring other investment risks. It's common to focus on what is right in front of us, and we tend to feel the pain of losses very sharply. Myopic loss Aversion an important insight of behavioral finance explains the common tendency for investors to focus on short term losses. Because we tend to feel much more pain from losses than we take pleasure in gains.

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Jessica Smith: This can store to go to great lengths to avoid losses, even if it means giving up future gains. Investing carries an inherent risk return Tradeoff to earn higher long-term returns, you may have to endure market volatility and accept more short-term risk. However, whether this is appropriate for you depends on your personal situation, goals, and other factors.

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