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How Risk Profiling Can Help Score a More Secure Retirement

Your portfolio should reflect your risk tolerance.

How many times have you heard this tidbit of advice and wondered if you were overexposed, underexposed or exactly where you should be when it comes to investment risk?

Certainly, it makes sense that your investments should match your ability (financially) and willingness (emotionally) to stomach large swings in the market. But how are you supposed to know what your personal risk tolerance is? Unless you've experienced an extreme high or low as an investor, it's hard to know how you'll react. Even those who were

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