Core and Explore

Coach Pete and his team at Capital Financial offer a comprehensive approach to financial planning, focusing on strategies to help you generate adequate retirement income and make that retirement income last throughout your lifetime. One of the strategies they recommend is having Core Money.

Core Money is protected and safe from risk. To earn enough profit to fund your life after retirement, you must incorporate some level of risk into your portfolio. Core Money provides you with the confidence to better tolerate that risk.

Any funds outside of Core Money can be used to explore investments opportunities. Ideally you will get a positive return on investments, but it is easier to tolerate if you can afford to lose some of it.

Here are some basic investment questions to ask yourself when thinking about investing money.

  1. Is the safety of principal amount more important than growth?
  2. Am I going to achieve my investment goal? (Will this investment allow me to fund my retirement)
  3. Am I ready to accept more risk to achieve higher returns? (Will the investment keep me up at night?