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Risk: The value of your investment can go down.
Reality: Time mitigates risk. Over the past two decades there’s been just one five-year period when the U.S. stock market lost ground.

Risk: Your investment isn’t guaranteed, like a certificate of deposit.
Reality: The steady return from a fixed-income investment will lose ground, over time, to inflation.


Risk: The prices of individual securities can vary dramatically.
Reality: The diversification inherent in a mutual fund substantially reduces the impact of any individual declines.

Risk: The market value of securities changes frequently.
Reality: Be thankful! If market value didn’t change, there would be no reward for investing.

Risk: Bond issuers can default.
Reality: Missed payments of interest and/or principal are rare, and diversification minimizes their effects.

Risk: Interest rates could go up (or down).
Reality: They will. Then they’ll go the other way. Again and again and again.

Risk: Investments outside the U.S. are subject to fluctuating currency values.
Reality: Over time, currency fluctuations tend to balance out. Diversification helps, too.

Risk: Unstable political and social conditions can hurt investments overseas.
Reality: Every day brings bad news for some U.S. company as well–but you’d never know it from the long-term trend of the U.S. stock market.

Risk: Global investments are subject to different securities regulations, accounting standards, and tax rules–and sometimes information can be hard to find.
Reality: Mutual funds are managed by full-time professionals whose jobs depend on their thorough knowledge of markets and companies.

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