NAOI Investor Education - Your Investing Style

Your Investing "Style": An Overview

Each individual with money to invest is unique. Some are conservative, others are aggressive. Some are experienced investors, others are new to the field. Some have a significant sum of money to invest, others are just beginning their investing careers. All of these factors and others combine to define your unique investing "style".

NAOI Study Courses are designed to meet the needs of investors of all styles. They can significantly increase your investing effectiveness regardless of whether you:

Have a little money or a lot to invest
Are an experienced investor or a novice
Have aggressive investing goals or conservative goals
Have a high risk tolerance or one that is low
Have investing goals that are long-term - e.g. 10+ years - or short-term - e.g. increase portfolio return NOW
Are interested in becoming personally involved in the investing process or prefer to work with an advisor
Are willing to devote multiple hours per week to the investing process or only a couple of hours per month

All of these elements combine to define your investing style.

NAOI Courses Support ALL Investing Styles

The NAOI does not advocate that you adopt any particular investing style. How can we? We don't know your current financial situation, your risk tolerance or your willingness to become involved in the process. No legitimate education resource should try to convince you that one type of "style" is better than another. There is only a "style" that is best for you.

The NAOI product line is designed to support any type of investing style. Its modular nature allows you to pick and choose those courses that fit your unique situation. For example, if you are a conservative investor then you may be satisfied with completing only Courses 1 and 2 of the Confident Investing Series that give you the basics of investing and show you how to put in place a Core Fund Portfolio. If your investing goals are higher and you are willing to become more involved in the investing process then you will want to consider Courses 3 through 5, each dealing with a more potentially profitable investing activity.

Do NOT Adopt a Default Style!

The investing style you have currently adopted may be one of "default". You may be a passive, "hands-off" investor simply because you can see no other realistic alternatives. You may, by default, have simply given your portfolio to a third party advisor because you don't believe yourself to be capable of making informed investing decisions. This needs to change.

As an NAOI graduate will have the capacity to adopt any investing style you choose. And it probably will NOT be the one you have now. Read on.

Choosing Your Investing Style

The style of investing you choose will be a personal decision. It will be based multiple factors as listed above. It will include the level of your goals, your risk tolerance, the amount of money you have to invest, your level of confidence and the amount of time you are willing to dedicate to the investing process. These are factors unique to you and that you must consider when deciding the investing style to adopt.

The NAOI strongly suggests, however, that you do NOT determine your optimal investing style until you have completed the NAOI Confident Investing Series. You may now view yourself as a conservative investor with little time or interest in becoming involved in the investing process. This view of your "style" is probably based on false assumptions. As an NAOI graduate these assumptions may, and probably will, change.

Many new students who attend NAOI college classes enter our programs with a semi-defeatist attitude. They are skeptical, believing that investing is too difficult for the average person. Yet we frequently see a dramatic change in these students as they move through the NAOI course material. When they learn how to invest and become aware of the Web resources available to them for free, students often change from skeptical to excited investors, eager to begin realizing the full potential of their investment portfolio.

Start with a Clean Slate

So, when considering what style of investing to adopt, erase all preconceptions and start with a clean slate. The type of investor you believe yourself to be now is probably not the type of investor you will choose to be after graduating from one or more NAOI course. Knowledge will give you an entirely new perspective on the field of investing, one that will enable you to make informed choices. And the choice to adopt a more proactive investing "style" can result in tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in increased wealth over the course of your investing career.

Education and Involvement Translate Into Real Dollars

Refer to the "Education and Involvement Equals Wealth" page to view how your investing style selection can translate into significantly increased wealth.