04.29.25 Ask An Advisor With Wes Moss

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Stock Market Fear Index and Missing the Worst Market Days Hurts You More Than You Think Feeling anxious about the volatile market in 2025? Fiduciary financial advisor Wes Moss breaks down why history shows us that peak fear always subsides. He analyzes past VIX spikes over the last 25 years to offer a reassuring perspective. Learn why it's unlikely this heightened fear will last forever and what history tells us about market recovery. Also, you've heard about the cost of missing the best market days, but what about the worst? Wes explains why trying to sidestep market downturns is often a losing strategy. Plus, Christa shares your #AskWes questions and Wes gives his take. All this and more on the April 29, 2025, Ask an Advisor episode of the Clark Howard podcast. Submit your questions at clark.com/ask. We hope you enjoy our weekly Ask An Advisor episodes, in which Christa and Wes discuss investing and retirement savings in depth. Let us know what you think in the comments! Learn more about Wes: Wes Moss, CFP® Learn more about your ad choices: megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:07.9	here with fiduciary financial advisor, Wes Moss. Welcome, Wes. Thank you, Krista Dee.
1:13.3	And today we're going to talk about fear. I would say is the main... It's an uplifting
1:18.8	version of fear. Yeah, there's so many... The good side of fear. Yeah, the fears around the stock market,
1:23.7	and you've got a couple of interesting topics around that. I would say they're, of course, they're interesting. Yeah. I'm even thinking a long time about what to talk about today. And
1:31.3	there's only a couple of choices. And I think that we're here, 2025 has been a roller coaster. Can I go
1:37.2	right into it? Can we get started? Sure, yes. We'll do that and we'll get to your questions. And if you do have questions for Wes or for Clark, please go to clark.com slash ask.
1:45.4	I think about this in the swirl that we've been in in 2025 where the stock market has been,
1:51.5	it's still almost not even in the roller coaster phase.
1:54.5	It's still, I don't know if we talked about this last week, but it's more in the bungee cord phase where you have these really big drops.
2:01.0	But then we have these really big gains.
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