This elegance earned a Nobel Prize for several smart professors. You must forgive them, though, for they had a far limited toolkit to work from. Still, this was the original source from which “risk” sprang.
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It’s fun to talk about “risk” and “return” because these are measurables and people are comfortable with the tangible world. But none of that touches upon what really matters. Worse, it can distract you from achieving what you want most.
Ultimately, if you want to protect yourself and others from making simple mistakes, you must embrace the sin that first birthed those missteps.
Like a car’s top-end gear, in the big picture 401k investing decisions are less powerful than most think.
Here’s a win-win idea for both 401k investors and their fiduciaries.
Whether or not you agree with the evolution of Modern Portfolio Theory, you cannot deny the “risk-return trade-off” has become the common sense soundbite of the century for the world of investors.
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