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Are you already busy with your day packed from morning to night with an exhaustive array of duties, responsibilities, a job, children, and more? Does your cell, work, and home phone ring as those who believe they need us now track us down like a bloodhound to ask us about plans for the week ahead. If you already have enough to do and are not looking for another job for which you are apt not to be good at anyway, then mutual funds might be your best bet.
Remember, if we are left alone we are more apt to fail. Adding an additional layer of wisdom is a prudent decision helping to ensure a more positive long-term experience. Having a CPA who recommends an adviser with both professionals helping to show the options and risk of various investment scenarios helps increase your chances of success. Accordingly adding a mutual fund, which is professionally managed, adds an additional layer of wisdom and experience to assist in making on-going decisions about investments. A mutual fund is required to have a prospectus that details, in accordance with carefully written and maintained standards, the fund's standards, investment style, past performance, up-front and on-going fees, and its strategy for investing. Also professional fund managers will supervise the day-to-day decisions that are reached, adding a layer of professional fund management that will guide the investment of your monies.
Buying Individual Stocks/Day Trading
Unless you are ready to quit your day job it is most difficult to buy individual stocks and do well. The market, along with its inherent volatility, is not for the meek of heart. Buying a piece of a particular company or developing your own personal portfolio will not only heighten your need for your own investment research but also it will quicken your pulse. Without someone to help in the initial purchase decision, you alone will be responsible for all of the due diligence during the whole of a time a position/purchase is made. Although there are many investors who are successful in their own account, there are many more who are not. Believing that it is hard to do one thing well, it is usually most advantageous for quality of life and rate of return to leave the investing up to the professionals. This is not to say that you should not review each and every decision as you should, but it is more like betting on a good horse and staying the course.
Left alone we are more apt to fail but by surrounding ourselves with wise investors we are best able to fulfill our long-term dreams. By working with us you will gain the wisdom of our personal experiences and long-term financial strategies. By keeping in mind that it was the turtle that won the race we can slow down the face of our financial decisions helping us to make more prudent long term decisions.
"All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness..." 2 Timothy 3:16
John Dillard is an author and Certified Public Accountant. To See how he takes Christ along with him to work visit www.HisCPA.com and for his latest book Overcoming Life's 9/11's: Job's Journey visit www.John-Dillard.com "Dare to Attempt Something so Great for the Kingdom of God that it is doomed to failure, lest Christ be in it!"
