Why Might Someone Choose to Invest in a CD Over Investing in the Stock Market

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Chip Stapleton explains that investors may choose CDs over stocks for the guaranteed return, principal protection, and stability they offer—making them ideal for those who are risk-averse and focused on preserving capital.
Video Transcript

So there are some reasons why you would pick a CD over investing in the stock market. So a CD is going to be give you a guaranteed rate of return, which you cannot get in the stock market. Stock market's gonna go up. Stock market's gonna go down. Those are really the only things that you can say with any certainty about the stock market, that it goes up and down.

With a CD, you have certainty. You have certainty. You're going to have your principal at the end of the the term of the CD. You're going to get a defined interest rate, which you know at the beginning. And there's a lot of confidence that goes into that type of strategy. Now it's not going to be a very big interest rate. Having a CD over the stock market is going to give you a nominal rate of return that is small.

But you know it's going to be there, and you know you're not going to lose money.

So if you're a situation where you're very risk averse and you need capital preservation and a little bit of interest rate, CDE could be a good strategy for you.