Stock market volatility is different today, according to Rob Isbitts, the chief investment officer of Sungarden Fund Management. "It is driven in large part by value-insensitive market players that care far less about what they are buying than that they are buying it, or selling it, or both within minutes," says Isbitts. "This is what the financial adviser of today and their clients must come to grips with. And it is a blessing and a curse."

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