{"id":2915,"date":"2016-03-01T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.incredibleretirement.com\/?p=2915"},"modified":"2016-02-04T15:02:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T20:02:07","slug":"the-secret-to-successful-investment-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianfricke.com\/the-secret-to-successful-investment-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret to Successful Investment Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.incredibleretirement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Secret-to-Successful-Investment-Strategy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2916\" src=\"http:\/\/www.incredibleretirement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Secret-to-Successful-Investment-Strategy.png\" alt=\"The Secret to Successful Investment Strategy\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the secret? It\u2019s simple really, have a written investment strategy. By my estimates, more than 95% of individual investors don\u2019t have a written investment strategy and even some 85% of financial advisors don\u2019t use them.<\/p>\n<p>This strategy should reflect your principles, values and philosophies about your finances. You\u2019ll rarely refer to this document during a bull market when your investments are increasing in value. On the other hand, when the market is going down and the value of your portfolio is less than you anticipated, the document will become invaluable. During uncertain times, otherwise very rational people tend to make very irrational decisions because their emotions overwhelm their reasoning. That\u2019s why\u2014whether you\u2019re managing your money on your own or you use an advisor\u2014you need to have a written investment strategy in place to remind you of your goals and your plan. As you craft your strategy, don\u2019t be bullied into including any approach that doesn\u2019t match your values or beliefs. This is your investment philosophy, not someone else\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>See how our investment system actually performs and what we are telling our clients about the financial markets in our Quarterly Market Review. <a href=\"https:\/\/brianfricke.com\/quarterly-market-reviews\/\" target=\"_blank\">Request your copy today<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s the secret? It\u2019s simple really, have a written investment strategy. By my estimates, more than 95% of individual investors don\u2019t have a written investment strategy and even some 85% of financial advisors don\u2019t use them. This strategy should reflect your principles, values and philosophies about your finances. You\u2019ll rarely refer to this document during a bull market when your &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/brianfricke.com\/the-secret-to-successful-investment-strategy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[23,118,55,227],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfricke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfricke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfricke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfricke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfricke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brianfricke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfricke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfricke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfricke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}