There are numerous factors that every advisor must consider when objectively assessing a client’s risk tolerance. And if the concept of risk wasn’t already complex enough (as it considers a multitude of facets, including tolerance, capacity, composure, perception, and literacy), the variety of available tools to measure risk tolerance – from written questionnaires to various FinTech software tools and simply having the advisor-client “risk conversation” – often results in inconsistent (or even contradictory) results (especially given that clients vary in their own risk literacy to navigate such assessments in the first place).
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