The Most Important Investment Advice

Posted on 2012-05-10 by Andreas Moser

My # 1 investment advice:

If you still have money left when you die, you have done something wrong.

Too much hedging can be boring.

Also consider advice # 2 and # 3.

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I am a lawyer in Germany, with a focus on international family law, migration and citizenship law, as well as constitutional law. My other interests include long walks, train rides, hitchhiking, history, and writing stories.

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9 Responses to The Most Important Investment Advice

Elena says:

2012-05-10 at 15:50

But if you die from nothing to eat becouse your money have gone, it’s OK?

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- Andreas Moser says:
  
  2012-05-10 at 15:59
  
  Advice # 2 would be to always keep enough for a bit of food.
  Alternatively, this advice can be restricted to countries with a social safety net.
Shawn Tham says:

2012-05-10 at 16:02

i think leaving at least some money for your children is a social norm, not that it is an obligation. maybe mostly to asians only. i don’t know but it is pretty normal to do that in Singapore.

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- Andreas Moser says:
  
  2012-05-10 at 16:21
  
  I noticed that. I once had a child from the Philippines ask me if he could already inherit part of his father’s wealth before the father had died: https://andreasmoser.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/greedy-child/
  
  I actually also belief it is the social norm outside of Asia. Definitely in Germany.
- Shawn Tham says:
  
  2012-05-10 at 16:30
  
  i just read about it on yo wordpress! THAT WAS HARSH. but the kid is so silly. haha it is like he got the “little emperor’ syndrome in China.
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Kavita Joshi says:

2013-06-27 at 11:43

love this advice and totally agree although I am on the other end these days where I am spending all my salary by 10th of the month and then wait for the next one ;)

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