JMF Capstone Wealth ManagementDon’t Let Wall Street Fool You Into Taking Too Much Risk – JMF Capstone Wealth Management https://www.jmfcapstone.com An Alabama registered investment advisor Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:30:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.22 Don’t Let Wall Street Fool You Into Taking Too Much Risk https://www.jmfcapstone.com/2016/09/05/dont-let-wall-street-fool-taking-much-risk/ https://www.jmfcapstone.com/2016/09/05/dont-let-wall-street-fool-taking-much-risk/#respond Mon, 05 Sep 2016 09:00:03 +0000 http://evolvemypractice.com/?p=3098 Competition for your dollars creates an inertia that always seems to lead Wall Street down the path of unhelpfully increasing the risk in your portfolio. The recent Wall Street Journal headline, “Bond Funds Turn Up Risk,” illustrates an especially alarming trend. Specifically, of increasing the risk in the part of your portfolio that should be...

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]]> Competition for your dollars creates an inertia that always seems to lead Wall Street down the path of unhelpfully increasing the risk in your portfolio. The recent Wall Street Journal headline, “Bond Funds Turn Up Risk,” illustrates an especially alarming trend. Specifically, of increasing the risk in the part of your portfolio that should be reducing overall risk—bonds.

Bonds are supposed to be boring. The primary role they serve in our portfolios is not necessarily to make money, but to dampen the volatility that is an inevitable byproduct of the real moneymakers—stocks.

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