All successful gardeners will understand the need to regularly tend their plants, shrubs and lawns in order to ensure a garden can flourish. For investors, taking a similar approach to their financial affairs can also bear fruit by ensuring their investment portfolios don’t become neglected and, as a result, underperform.
Weeding, sowing…
As with a garden, your investment portfolio requires regular careful attention in order to ensure it continues to grow. Typical tasks include weeding out any perennially underperforming funds and switching to potentially more profitable ones. For those with new money to invest, sowing the seeds of your portfolio with carefully selected additional new investments, can really spruce things up.
Pruning and Trimming
Another important task is pruning. This will ensure your investment portfolio stays balanced and continues to fully reflect both your current and long-term financial goals as well as any changes in your appetite for risk.
It may also require taking profits at certain points in time to ensure you are using any potential tax allowances.
However carefully your initial range of investments were selected, your portfolio will inevitably get out of shape over time. This creates an ongoing need to regularly review the allocation of different asset classes, such as cash, equities, bonds and property. Such a review may result in the trimming back of certain assets in order to restore balance to your portfolio.
Help is at hand
Many people now seek professional help to create and maintain their garden and it’ wise for investors to do the same. With ongoing political and economic uncertainties causing increased market volatility, there has never been a more important time to seek professional financial advice. Keep in touch, so that we can help you keep your investment portfolio in full bloom.
Clifford Osborne are Independent Financial Advisors (IFA) based in Eastbourne, East Sussex, offering investment advice and review, early retirement advice, pension advice, mortgage advice and more. Our clients often come from Uckfield, Lewes, Brighton, Tunbridge Wells, Hastings, Bexhill, Newhaven, Seaford, Crowborough and further afield. Please read our blog or get in touch for investment tips and advice.
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