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I (Maria) am the type of person who feels secure when I’m in control and well informed. When working as a biomedical photographer, before I started a new career as a Wealth Coach with my mother, I’d read my employers’ 401(k) investment prospectuses, and then believed I could make an informed investment decision. I frequently logged into my 401(k) account to check my investments and then made changes to my allocations, because of their past returns. I never realized how much I was actually hurting my investments. My behavior caused these results: My 401(k) was poorly diversified; I created larger investment costs by trading frequently; I bought high and sold low; and I was ineffectively chasing returns. Without knowing better, I was killing my returns while trying to improve them. In reality, I was going backward and being my own worst enemy. Nobody else was doing this to me; I was doing it all to myself, creating more stress with my counterproductive behavior.
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Karl and Jenny retired and sold their home to move to a warmer climate. They were looking forward to full-time fishing, golfing, and gardening, as their new southern home was near a lake and on a golf course.
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Jake was a highly successful upper-level manager in the automotive business. He was the manager of a very large division and well-respected. His whole identity and self-worth were related to his position at work. Jake was a workaholic. He worked long hours and had no outside interests and took few vacations. He and his wife, Lynn, didn’t have children, so their whole focus was on work and themselves. They were estranged from their relatives, as they never had time for vacations nor did they take time to attend family reunions.
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How would you feel if you retired and then learned that you had been deceived all of your investing life? Are you ready to take control and learn more about investing?
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Turnover is the frequency of the buying and selling rate within mutual funds and individual stocks. Every time there is a transaction inside your mutual fund, costs are incurred—whether you have approved the sales and purchases or not. Active money managers who buy and sell frequently within mutual funds create higher costs for investors than money managers who buy and rebalance, like the Free Market Funds, which have a turnover rate of zero to twenty percent.
