The Next Warren Buffett Is A Woman. Here's How To Invest With Her:

Hello everyone,

Last weekend, Warren Buffett released his annual letter to shareholders.

If you haven’t taken note of anything I’ve written before, I hope you’ll take note of this.

Here’s what he said (and I quote):

“Fixed-income investors worldwide – whether pension funds, insurance companies or retirees – face a bleak future.”

In certain large and important countries, such as Germany and Japan, investors earn a negative return on trillions of dollars of sovereign debt.

Bonds are not the place to be these days.”

Here’s what that means for you:

Government bonds, traditionally considered “safe investments for retirement” will, in fact, get you no retirement at all.

The idea that you can own a “safe asset” that earns 6% per year to retire on no longer exists.

So what do you do instead?

Well, Warren has us covered here too (I quote):

“The best results occur at companies that require minimal assets to conduct high-margin businesses – and offer goods or services that will expand their sales volume with only minor needs for additional capital.”

This asset-light model is the hallmark of technology businesses.

Remember, software businesses earn on average 25% on equity every year. Non-software businesses earn just 7% annually.

New economy > old economy.

Warren’s echoing a simple message that bears repeating: in 2021, to safeguard your money, you have to take risks.

So next time a friend tells you they own “bonds for safety in retirement” - slap them. With that, retirement is not happening.

If your financial advisor, wealth manager, or banker buys you bonds for “stability” - fire them.

And if you’re counting on a government pension plan (many of which are invested mostly in bonds) to retire - I’d urge you to start taking your retirement into your own hands.

You don’t have to listen to me - but I hope you’ll listen to uncle Warren.

Speaking of - the “next Warren Buffett" could be a woman. Here’s how to invest with her:

Her name is Cathie Wood and she has made a name for herself by returning over 40% per year for the past 10 years - and 150% in the last year alone.

Unsurprisingly, she invests in technology and innovation (see the theme here?).

She runs a company called Ark Invest and is notable for being an early, outspoken supporter of Tesla.

To be fair, she’s a total bad-ass.

You can invest in her main fund under the ticker ARKK in your brokerage account. It owns companies like Square, Tesla, Roku, Spotify, Zillow - and many more.

Go check it out if you’ve been investing in bonds and the old economy - and need to spice up your returns.

And watch this and this if you want to see her in action.

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By the way, if you’re not buying stocks today because:

• you’re waiting for the market to crash next week so you can invest
• “experts” say stocks are overvalued or
• the market is at an all-time high
• Then don’t just slap your friend investing in bonds - slap yourself too.

Look, the market is supposed to reach a new all-time high often. That’s how it works.

I know people who’ve been saying the market’s overvalued for half a decade - and missed out on massive gains.

Don’t fall for those who tell you to “wait to buy stocks because they’re expensive now so buy gold instead, etc.” - and all that other stuff.

Nobody can predict what’s going to happen tomorrow. So don’t try.

It won’t be the last time you hear this but - time in the market is more important than timing the market.

Invest regularly, no matter what happens on a day-to-day basis, in good times as in bad.

In the long-term, you’ll be massively rewarded.

And if you’re not going to buy stocks when they go down - like this week - then when the hell are you going to buy?

In the meantime, ignore the media, ignore the news, and ignore the naysayers.

Just invest.

Best article I read this week: If you want more examples of investors switching to technology & innovation, and crushing it, read this.

Best Tweet I came across this week: Read this and you’ll understand more about Bitcoin than 80% of people.

(I’ve also been completely obsessed with this album for the last week. It’s on repeat as I’m writing this.)

Anything else I think you should know:

Just look at this picture:

So is it time to sell your stocks?

Absolutely not.

I don’t care if the stock market goes down 40% next week. And you shouldn’t either.

You have to learn to live with volatility and uncertainty. They’re part of generating high returns.

As Peter Lynch, who returned 30% per year for 13 years would say - “the key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.”

Simply put:

• Invest in companies and innovations that make our life better, cheaper, faster, more efficient, more convenient, and more creative (like Cathie does)
• Invest regularly - ignoring all the doomsday noise from the media, friends, news, bankers, reports, etc. - hell, you can even ignore me if it helps!
• Sit back, relax, turn off the news and go do something else with your life

Speaking of enjoying life, next week, I’ll share with you the best investment I ever made that I recommend to virtually everyone who asks.

I know you didn’t ask, but I’ll tell you anyway.

It has (almost) nothing to do with investing & money. But it’s changed my life and I use it daily.

And it’s just $200.

Stay tuned.

Alex.

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