{"id":25865,"date":"2026-02-22T03:00:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/?p=25865"},"modified":"2026-02-22T03:00:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:00:36","slug":"market-volatility-trap-this-investment-strategy-may-hurt-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/?p=25865","title":{"rendered":"Market volatility trap? This investment strategy may hurt investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"SpecialReportArticle-ArticleBody-6\" data-module=\"ArticleBody\" data-test=\"articleBody-2\" data-analytics=\"SpecialReportArticle-articleBody-6-2\"><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\" style=\"top:0;left:0\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"Placeholder-ArticleBody-Video-108267423\">\n<div role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" id=\"Placeholder-ArticleBody-Video-108267423\" class=\"PlaceHolder-wrapper\" data-vilynx-id=\"7000404249\" data-test=\"VideoPlaceHolder\">\n<div class=\"InlineVideo-videoEmbed\" id=\"InlineVideo-0\" data-test=\"InlineVideo\">\n<div class=\"InlineVideo-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"InlineVideo-inlineThumbnailContainer\"><span class=\"InlineVideo-videoButton\"><\/span><span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p>The market volatility may be leading retail investors astray.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kathmere Capital Management&#8217;s Nick Ryder, they shouldn&#8217;t use the current backdrop as an excuse to dive into defensive trades \u2014 including dividend-paying stocks and bonds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oftentimes, we just see too often people taking an income-focused approach, and it leaves a lot on the table,&#8221; the firm&#8217;s chief investment officer told CNBC&#8217;s &#8220;ETF Edge&#8221; this week. &#8220;We generally just advise for all of our clients to take a total return-oriented approach \u2026 that&#8217;s going to apply across stocks, bonds and everything in between within a portfolio.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ryder, whose firm has $3.5 billion in assets under management, warns against so-called &#8220;yield-chasing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Within fixed income, it could be yield-chasing in terms of moving further out interest rate risk, taking greater amounts of duration and portfolio, [and] moving from investment grade to high-yield bonds \u2014which have dramatically different risk and return expectations,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Ryder contends income shouldn&#8217;t be the foundation of long-term portfolios. He indicates investors are better served starting with goals and risk tolerance, then adding income, because pullbacks are part of long-term investing. An income-first approach, he cautions, can quietly push portfolios into unintended bets.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also optimistic about the macro backdrop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Overall, the economy has been pretty darn resilient,&#8221; added Ryder. &#8220;You&#8217;ve seen corporate profitability be very resilient.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That total-return approach is also why Amplify ETFs&#8217; Christian Magoon is urging investors not to let the distribution number drive the decisions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We think being smart about yield means balancing attractive yield with upside or long-term capital appreciation \u2026 not just going for a maximum possible yield,&#8221; the firm&#8217;s CEO said in the same interview. &#8220;We think that&#8217;s a yield trap.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/02\/21\/market-volatility-trap-this-investment-strategy-may-hurt-investors-.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The market volatility may be leading retail investors astray. According to Kathmere Capital Management&#8217;s Nick Ryder, they shouldn&#8217;t use the current backdrop as an excuse to dive into defensive trades \u2014 including dividend-paying stocks and bonds. &#8220;Oftentimes, we just see too often people taking an income-focused approach, and it leaves a lot on the table,&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196],"tags":[2616,437,81,94,1142,1610,3645],"class_list":{"0":"post-25865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-finance-news","8":"tag-hurt","9":"tag-investment","10":"tag-investors","11":"tag-market","12":"tag-strategy","13":"tag-trap","14":"tag-volatility"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}