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Hi, everyone.

Welcome to another episode of Ready for Retirement.

I'm your host, James Cannell.

And what we're going to talk about in today's episode is just some of the craziness going on in the investment world.

We're looking at things like individual stocks like

Tesla going crazy or looking at things like Bitcoin or looking at things like just different

types of investments that are hard to keep up with. And it causes a lot of us as investors just to

wonder, am I invested the right way? Am I owning the right types of things? How do I even know where

to start when it comes to designing the right portfolio for me?

So today's episode is all about five steps to designing the optimal portfolio for you.

Now, the optimal portfolio for you is going to be different than the optimal portfolio for me,

different than the optimal portfolio for your neighbor or anyone else.

But the steps to get there, the steps you should go to to arrive

to understand what makes most sense for you, those are going to be pretty consistent.

So whatever your goals are, wherever you are, this is going to be a good episode to help you

understand what is it that you should look for when it comes to designing the right portfolio.

Step number one, the first thing that you need to think of or that you need to

work through when designing the right portfolio is it comes with, it starts with an understanding

that it is incredibly difficult to outsmart the market. What I mean by that is if you are going to

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