Golden Rules of Financial Safety

Some of the best advice is timeless. Here’re some nuggets of wisdom from the late Harry Browne.

  • Your career provides your wealth
  • Don’t assume you can replace your wealth
  • Recognise the difference between investing and speculating & speculate only with money you can afford to lose
  • No one can predict the future
  • No one can move you in and and of investments consistently with precise and profitable timing
  • No trading system will work as well in the future as it did in the past
  • Don’t use leverage
  • Don’t let anyone make your decisions
  • Don’t ever do anything you don’t understand
  • Don’t depend on any one investment, institution or person for your safety
  • Create a bulletproof portfolio for protection
  • Keep some assets outside the country in which you live
  • Beware of tax-avoidance schemes
  • When in doubt, err on the side of safety

These topics are covered in the timeless classic – Fail-safe Investing, probably the best $10 you’ll spend on personal finance and investing!

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