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Finance allah shmoop what are investment objective and style All

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right people we all want to make money right Okay

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everyone except that guy Yeah That's everyone's overall investment objective

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Scratch a little further and you'll find that everyone's investment

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goal or objective is a little different Well some people

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want to make a lots of money fast and they

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can risk a lot you know because retirement is right

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around the corner and they've got a prayer on their

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side Some people are okay with making money slow because

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they don't feel comfortable taking a lot of risk Some

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folks want to make money sure but want to invest

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only in quote ethical unquote companies And you got a

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whole bunch of other flavors on down the line Well

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it's a registered investment advisors job to figure out how

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much someone wants to make and how they want to

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make that money risk wise with their investments Not knowing

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this stuff helps the adviser choose the right options for

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their client So what's your investment style Sure you've got

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style that would make kanye west weak but what's your

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investment style like depends on your personality your investment ideas

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And what your goals are and how much you really

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can risk and you afford tto lose everything and start

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all over if things go bust putting all your money

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in whatever dot com well your style might be aggressive

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like you go after stock to think a ll rise

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and rise fast you know like new i pose and

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high growth tech companies and you're comfortable knowing they could

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also go bust and you could also be an index

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or just kind of passive i eat You're not going

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to try to outperform the market you're into long term

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growth so you might want to just be the market

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by an index fund of the s and p five

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hundred Your style might be focused on buying shares in

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big companies and holding them for a long time or

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brian smaller growth e companies and hoping they take off

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but holding them for a long time like not a

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lot of trading not a lot of taxes things just

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kind of plunk along Well you might be all about

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value buying stocks everybody hates when they're on the cover

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the wall street journal which is saying this thing is

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a dog Then you want to buy it because really

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cheap or you might be in a growth like companies

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that don't pay a dividend Maybe they don't even have

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any earnings like amazon Amazon probably the greatest growth stock

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in history barely had any earnings no dividend and it

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just grows you know look at that chart that a

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beauty Well there are tons of hybrids in between all

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of these styles but at the end of the day

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it's all about risk and reward and time And for

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most people the worst thing they khun dio is stay

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high and dry fully out of the investing pool because

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over time the markets go up so no your objective

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know your style and whatever you do don't make kanye 00:02:37.313 --> [endTime] cry

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