Client Risk Tolerance Questionnaire

Estimated time to complete 5-8 minutes.

Please complete all questions to the best of your ability and most importantly, honestly. There are no wrong answers! This questionnaire is designed to assist in the recommendation of an optimal portfolio based on your investment time horizon, risk tolerance, investment objectives and liquidity needs. Your responses provided in the questionnaire are instrumental in determining a recommended portfolio. (Please choose one response per question.)

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The following best describes my overall investment objective.

What do you plan to do with the income generated by your investments?

I believe that my non-investment income stream (i.e. salary, rental income, Social Security, pension) for the foreseeable future as best described as:

Which one of the following statements best describes your feeling about investment risk? I prefer:

What best describes your response when your portfolio valued at $100,000 quickly declines 15% to $85,000?

The statements below represent three different ways in which your portfolio returns may fluctuate year to year. Which do you prefer?

How would you describe your outlook for the U.S. economy in the foreseeable future?

Which type of securities are you most comfortable investing in?

What is your current age?

When do you plan to start withdrawing funds from your investment portfolio outside of current income?

This graph shows the potential range of gains or losses of a $100,000 investment in each of four hypothetical portfolios at the end of a 1-year period.

The number above each bar shows the best potential gain for that portfolio, while the number below each bar shows the worst potential loss. Given that this is the only information that you have on these four hypothetical portfolios.

Which of the above hypothetical portfolios would you choose to invest in?

Inflation (rising prices for goods and services) can have a significant effect on your investments by decreasing their potential purchasing power over time. Aggressive investments have historically outpaced inflation over the long run, but have had more instances of short-term losses than more conservative investments.

How do you feel about inflation and its impact on your investments?

Scenario: Suppose that a substantial portion of your investment portfolio is invested in stocks & the stock market were to experience a prolonged down market, losing 45 percent of its value over an 18 month period.

If the stock market were to experience a prolonged down market, what would you do (assuming your stocks behaved in a similar fashion)?

Scenario: Once again, assume you have a substantial portion of your investment portfolio in stocks. The stock market gradually declines at an average of 2 percent per month, eventually losing 22% of its value over a year.

If the stock market were to gradually decline at an average of 2 percent per month, eventually losing 22% of its value over a year, which of the following would you do?

Aggressive investments have historically provided higher returns while exhibiting greater short-term price fluctuations and potential for loss.

How do you feel about fluctuations in the value of your portfolio?

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By submitting this form, you agree that you have reviewed all of the questions and answers provided in the risk tolerance questionnaire. You also realize that the information requested in this worksheet as well as your answers to the questionnaire will assist your Total Wealth Planning advisory team with the characterization of risk tolerance and structuring of your investment portfolio.

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