Keep human capital diverse from financial capital

As financial advisors your role is critical to the success your clients seek. 

Investing for future needs is the biggest challenge faced by investors and their advisors. In order to retire at 65, today’s millennial needs to save approximately one-half of each paycheck.  That seems a very difficult goal to achieve in today’s environment.

What are some of the components of sound financial advice advisors should be conveying to their clients?  

1. Most important is to avoid disaster and keep human capital diverse from financial capital.  I mention this because of the Enron debacle and many like it.   Many investors had not only a significant portion of their financial capital exposed to Enron’s stock, but also were employees of Enron which proved to be ruinous to their human capital as well.  A double whammy that caused the financial ruin of many.
2. Next it is important to reduce the risk or volatility by using non-correlated assets in constructing portfolios.  All asset classes have unique risk and return factors.  Maximizing expected returns and minimizing volatility through a diversified portfolio can enhance returns.   Reduced volatility results in better long-term investment results.
3. Finally, be conscious of the money illusion that fails to incorporate the effects of inflation on long term goals.  Even though inflation is currently well contained, ignoring the erosive effects it can have on future assets and liabilities will cause future needs to be grossly underestimated.

Planning and investing for the future require skill, discipline, process and a realization of risks that are ever present in an investment market where the future may not look like the past.

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