Slide 1: Investing Today: Keeping Perspective in Volatile Markets
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Slide 2: Welcome to Your Investing Today Handbook
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Slide 3: Evaluate Volatility, Consider the Noise, Understand Your Threshold
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Slide 4: Evaluate Volatility
Evaluate Volatility Volatility: • Is an inherent part of investing • Can create mispricing in securities • Can often cause us to react emotionally • Is a large function of time ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐
Slide 5: Which chart would you prefer your portfolio to look like?
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Slide 6: Evaluate
EVALUATE
Slide 7: Consider the Noise
Consider the Noise Most information reported by the financial media is “noise,” not news. ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐
Slide 8: U.S. Markets Tumble As Fear Spreads
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Slide 9: Consider
CONSIDER
Slide 10: Understand Your Threshold
Understand Your Threshold The stock market is volatile by nature. ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐
Slide 11: Identifying your personal threshold can be difficult
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Slide 12: Understand
UNDERSTAND
Slide 13: Focus on What You Can Control
Focus on What You Can Control Things you can control: Things you can’t control: • Investment allocation • Market performance • Risk exposure • Volatility • Tactical strategies • Economic policies (rebalancing, defining when to buy low) • Headlines • How you react/respond to the things you can’t cont
Slide 14: Jane and Joe performance comparison
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Slide 15: Focus
FOCUS
Slide 16: Communicate Your Needs
Communicate Your Needs Your selected preferences will provide your financial professional information on how to most effectively communicate with you. In each series, select the statement that best describes you. Group 1 Group 2 A. Considers things objectively – seldom A. Analytical when making deci
Slide 17: Communication preference groups 3-5
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Slide 18: Communicate
COMMUNICATE
Slide 19: Notes
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Slide 20: Brighthouse Financial service marks and disclosures
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