Risk tolerance, risk perceptions and new standards

Carly Schulaka  | Journal of Financial Planning | 27 March 2012

Since co-founding FinaMetrica, Geoff Davey has earned an international reputation as a risk tolerance expert. Davey continually studies risk tolerance data, searching for patterns and consistencies in an attempt to bring standards around risk tolerance to the financial planning profession. In his study of longitudinal data on risk tolerance profiles from the pre-recession bull market and the post-recession bear market, he's finding that risk toleranc...