Welcome to Ask an Advisor, where we here at Team Clark talk with fiduciary financial advisor

Wes Moss about the economy, investing, how to save for your future.

There's an awful lot to be talking about when it comes to the economy, our futures, our retirement futures.

Krista, thanks for having me, of course.

Yes, so it's always great to talk with you, Wes.

Thank you so much to everybody who tunes in every week and watches us on YouTube.

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And today we're going to talk about something that I'm

curious about. Should we cancel our beach trip this summer if we're planning on going on one

because of the stock market? And if there's a bear market, what do we do? Also, later on,

what is the most popular benchmark that most of us look at when it comes to our investments?

And I think you're going to tell us if that is actually the right one that we should be looking at.

That's a good way to put it.

Right.

So benchmarks.

What are we judging our portfolio against or with?

So you want to start with, and this really hits close to home for me. And this is, I think, a very real life situation.

Well, it is a real life situation. That's why I'm bringing it here because I think I would not doubt

that as we approach the, I guess it's travel season all year long. I mean, but particularly in the

summer when you may want to go somewhere, you may want to take

your family, your kids, or maybe you're going as the grandparent and you're taking your kids

and then their kids, and maybe because we live in the southeast, a popular destination is Florida.

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