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Smarter Investing: Simpler Decisions for Better Results (Financial Times Series)

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We work with an amazing group of client firms who sit at the forefront of the financial planning profession in the UK and elsewhere, including 22 of the 65 CISI Accredited firms. The benefits are extra diversification and yield, though Hale emphasises the importance of ensuring global bonds are hedged to Sterling. (There’s no point taking on currency risk in the portion of your portfolio that’s meant to cushion you against volatility.) In addition, determine what your risk appetite is. When you do not need the money directly, you can take more risks. Are you about to retire? Then it’s probably smarter to limit your risks a little more. Based on the time you have and the risks you want to take, you can decide which investment products you want to invest in.

Hale has also downgraded the return expectations for his range of model portfolios that form the centerpiece of the book. The effect is most pronounced on portfolios with a heavy bond allocation, but the drag was enough to make me wince even on a 60:40 equity/bond allocation.

The extent to which you should take risks depends very much on the time horizon of your investment plan. When you start investing at a young age, you can take more risks. When the market is bad, for a while you have plenty of time to wait for recovery. Many investment experts therefore advise traders to invest more in bonds as they age. techniques to control your “demons” (( I assume this means bad habits and psychological weaknesses )) Tim says that when he was writing the book, his friends and colleagues asked him to keep it short, since they didn’t have much time. this is all about “thinking fast and slow”– making sure that your intuitive brain doesn’t overpower your reflective one That’s it for today – we’ve completed Part 1 of the book, and we’re about a fifth of the way through.

Why should you invest?At a minimum, investing allows you to keep pace with cost-of-living increases created by inflation.At a maximum, the major benefit of a long-term investment strategy is the possibility of compounding interest, or growth earned on growth. investing is “pay-offs you can survive with, along with chances of achieving them that you can live with” Running a pretend portfolio is no good. Investing is for a period of years. By the time you have seen any results, the ship will have sailed.

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He says that the 80 / 20 rule (the Pareto principle) holds true in investment as much as anywhere else. active funds charge a percentage of assets under management, and so marketing is more important than performance

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