This questionnaire helps to decide how to allocate your assets among stocks, bonds, and short-term reserves, based on your investment time horizon, risk capacity, risk tolerance, and preferences. Your responses are a guide for discussion and are not investment advice.
Section 2 — Risk Capacity
Your ability to accept risk
Section 3 — Risk Tolerance
Your willingness to accept risk
8. Portfolio Returns vs. Potential Losses*
Which portfolio would you feel most comfortable with? Figures show the greatest 1-year loss and highest 1-year gain for a hypothetical $100,000 investment. Bonds = Five-Year U.S. Treasury Notes; Stocks = S&P 500 Index; illustrative only.
Portfolio A — 75% bonds / 25% stocksGreatest 1-year loss −$8,350 · Highest 1-year gain $35,293
Portfolio B — 60% bonds / 40% stocksGreatest 1-year loss −$14,465 · Highest 1-year gain $40,436
Portfolio C — 50% bonds / 50% stocksGreatest 1-year loss −$19,128 · Highest 1-year gain $43,865
Portfolio D — 35% bonds / 65% stocksGreatest 1-year loss −$26,385 · Highest 1-year gain $49,008
Portfolio E — 25% bonds / 75% stocksGreatest 1-year loss −$31,223 · Highest 1-year gain $52,436
Portfolio F — 15% bonds / 85% stocksGreatest 1-year loss −$36,062 · Highest 1-year gain $55,865
Portfolio G — 2% bonds / 98% stocksGreatest 1-year loss −$42,351 · Highest 1-year gain $60,322
Please select an option.
Your responses are used to guide a discussion with your adviser and do not constitute investment advice or a recommendation.