Part 2

Smarter thinking

Perhaps one of the biggest mistakes that investors make is focusing on ‘doing’ rather than ‘thinking’ about investing or their own behaviour in relation to it. Before we talk about what you should invest in, it is critical that you formulate some simple rules about how you should invest. To that end, the following two chapters provide an insight so you can come up with some guiding principles to help you make decisions and curb your emotions on your investing journey.

Chapter 4: A smarter investment philosophy

Defining and believing in a set of investing rules lies at the heart of successful investing. Although you cannot control how the markets will perform during your investment lifetime, you can stop throwing ...

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