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Welcome back to Ask an Advisor, Team Clark's weekly episode where we go deeper on all things investing. I'm Krista DiBias.

I'm here with Wes Moss, who is a fee-only fiduciary advisor and a great friend of the show,

and now a member of Team Clark. And a burgundy vest. Yes, and your burgundy vest, looking very

sharp as always. All right, so what are you going to talk about today? I wanted to pick up on five keys to

being a successful investor and successful retirement. I went through these more in depth two weeks

ago when I was here on the show, but I wanted to go more in depth than the first one, which is

stocks mostly. And there's a reason that I say stocks first and then mostly second. Remember just the as a quick

outline we want stocks mostly. We want massive diversification and asset allocation. We want patience,

longevity. Investing is easier and harder all at the same time. So we have to figure out how to

avoid headlines or ignore headlines and then planning. So let's go into stocks mostly.

I think back over the past 25 years or so of investing, there's so many major market events

...