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Retirement: 2 types of risk tolerances investors need to gauge

Robert "Bob" Powell sits down with Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. Chief Investment Strategist Liz Ann Sonders at the 2024 Schwab Impact event to discuss market uncertainty and how to cope with it when saving for retirement. In the full episode of Decoding Retirement Bob and Liz Ann discuss the democratization of investments, stagflation, the impact of market uncertainty and more. According to Liz Ann Sonders, investors need to gauge the gap between their financial risk tolerance and emotional risk tolerance, Basically, find the balance between how much you're able to risk on paper and how much you can emotionally risk to avoid selling during a bear market. Catch the full episode with Liz Ann Sonders on Yahoo Finance's Decoding Retirement. Yahoo Finance's Decoding Retirement is hosted by Robert Powell, and produced by Austin Rivera. Find more episodes of Decoding Retirement at https://finance.yahoo.com/videos/series/decoding-retirement. Thoughts? Questions? Fan mail? Email us at yfpodcasts@yahooinc.com. Editor's note: This post was written by Austin Rivera.