I got an email the other day from an investor - let's call him John - who bought a stock purely because it was recommended by a friend/guru/media and now it is 30% down, and John is losing sleep and wondering what to do.

I really sympathise with John, as I earned my first $10,000 when I was 18, went to my bank, got talked at by their financial advisor and left with a bunch of brochures I did not understand. I picked a number of biotech funds - the FOMO investment of the time.

Unfortunately Things Did Not Go to Plan

My choices lost me 45% of my money. When I realised the loss, I started to go through the brochures again, and noticed the 5% upfront fee and the 3.4% annual fee that I had also been paying. Ever since then, I wish that building wealth and investment was taught at school. Had I understood my current investment strategy then, I would have turned those $10,000 into $292,576.69 by now. Instead I lost $4000 picking random funds based on what I had been reading about in the financial press. To make matters worse - I was put off investing for years.

I have since been fortunate enough to work as a hedge fund strategist for a major investment bank, and I have met many highly successful investors in my follow on careers as a corporate lawyer and entrepreneur.  Through these experiences, and mostly by learning from a small number of highly successful friends, I learned that 80% of my wealth comes from investing, and only 20% from my business income.

To be a reliably successful investor you need to equip yourself with the tools to make good decisions.

Value Your Financial Freedom

I want you to empower yourself to not be in that position - ever.

Make a small investment into your financial future and transform your life, through low risk, high return investing.

PS: Teach your children, nieces/nephews, god children... Financial freedom is the greatest gift you can give!