MarketWatch lists the top regrets of 625 investors with a minimum net worth of $1 million:
- 27% didn’t diversify their portfolios well enough
- 23% started later than they should have
- 20% focused too much on short-term results
- 15% were too emotional over their investments
- 8% didn’t keep enough cash in reserve.
It’s too bad these folks weren’t PBRG subscribers. We “pound the table” on our core investment beliefs in these pages for a reason…
Just a few PBRG pieces could have saved these investors a lifetime of squandered opportunity:
- Diversification: The 2016 Asset Allocation Guide; position-sizing guidelines
- Investment time horizons: “The Secret of the Golden Buckets”
- Short-term results: “How the ‘Big White Lie’ of Investing Almost Cost Me My Retirement”
- Handling emotions: Stop-loss discipline
- Cash allocation: The 2016 Asset Allocation Guide.
Bottom line: Don’t become a statistic. PBRG offers you all the keys to your long-term investment success. Use them.