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Matt McGrath, managing partner and wealth manager at Evensky & Katz/Foldes Financial, an advisory in Coral Gables, Fla., says what unsettles his most anxious clients is the unprecedented nature of the crisis.

Do you really need that individual stock?

Roxanne Alexander

Individual stocks end up in portfolios for various reasons—possibly some speculation along the way, maybe inherited from a family member and kept for sentimental reasons, purchased many years ago and now with a cost basis so low that selling the stock would incur high taxes, or through acquisition of company stock options. We don’t recommend…

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The December Rout

Harold R. Evensky

BLOOMBERG, DECEMBER 26, 2018, 10:23 AM INVESTORS SCRAMBLE TO PULL CASH OUT OF MUTUAL FUNDS Investors withdrew $56.2 billion from mutual funds during the week that ended Dec. 19, according to data from the Investment Company Institute. The mutual fund market hasn’t experienced a one-week outflow so large since October 2008. REMEMBER THESE HEADLINES DURING…