Many people said diversify is the key to succeed in investing world. I do not completely agree with it. Especially, when you're young, you should consider take more risk since time is on your side. I'd rather concentrate my capital and energy into some higher risk AND potentially higher reward investment. For example, let's say you have a set amount of capital (say 30,000) to invest in Mutual Fund. It's normal for most people to invest 5 or 6 Fund to diversify. But I believe the more effective way to build wealth in a shorter period of time is to concentrate into high performing Fund. I'd do the research and analyze which fund will have a higher chance to increase in value. After I'm confident on my research, I'd concentrate all my seed money in it. I 'd buy no more than 3 Fund and watch how good or bad my picks are. I will go back and learn the mistake I make from the research and analyze if my fund go down in value. So, next round I can be more informed and make a better selection. So, diversify is the easy and lazy route. You could reach your goal when you're 65 or 70. But if you want to build wealth tonight, we should learn and train ourselves to select right investment with the right market to maximize our return.
Saturday, October 6, 2007
Don't Diversifiy, Concentrate into high perofrmance investment
Posted by 529pm @ 12:32 AM
Labels: market, mindset, Mutual Fund
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I agree with you that we should be more aggressive in investing when we are young (under 40s). I bought 10 different mutual funds in June last year. 2-3 of them, all international funds, outperformed the market by 20-30%. It was terribly sad that I also bought some global and US real estate funds, which only yielded 6% till now. Currently, I am thinking about investing mostly in internationl and emerging markets. After reading more on the global economic environment, I believe their performance would still be better that most of the U.S. funds.
Agree, international and emerging market still has room to grow in the next 3 to 6 months. For U.S, technology is the sector to watch. QQQQ has gone up about 20% in the last 4 months.
You are on the right track
Young people has a lot of time and energy.
-Cindy
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