{"id":3971,"date":"2011-06-10T22:18:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T05:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/?p=3971"},"modified":"2017-02-26T18:31:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T18:31:12","slug":"what-is-your-risk-tolerance-learn-before-investing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/financial-tools\/what-is-your-risk-tolerance-learn-before-investing\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Your Risk Tolerance? Learn Before Investing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you willing to take risks when investing or do you prefer to play it safe? <strong>An essential part of managing your finances and building a successful investment strategy is understanding your risk tolerance.<\/strong> Knowing your level of <a title=\"Averse to Risk?  Most of us Are\" href=\"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/insurance\/risk-aversion\/\">risk aversion<\/a> is extremely helpful whether you decide to invest or plan retirement on your own, with assistance or leave it completely up to a professional.<\/p>\n<p>This risk tolerance quiz was developed by Dr. Ruth Lytton at Virginia Tech and Dr. John Grable at Kansas State University and is hosted on the extension website. <strong><a title=\"Investment Risk Tolerance Quiz\" href=\"http:\/\/njaes.rutgers.edu\/money\/riskquiz\/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Take the quiz here!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you willing to take risks when investing or do you prefer to play it safe? An essential part of managing your finances and building a successful investment strategy is understanding your risk tolerance. Knowing your level of risk aversion is extremely helpful whether you decide to invest or plan retirement on your own, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[95,148,150],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}