There are two kinds of risk that investors should understand when building a portfolio: risk tolerance and risk capacity.
Safer assets, like cash or money market funds, are stable but have relatively low returns that may not deliver much if any growth after inflation.
Risk tolerance is essentially an investor's comfort level with short-term market gyrations.
It's a willingness to take risk and is personal, subjective and guided by emotion, experts said.
Such a person would have a low risk tolerance.
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