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An Insider’s Guide to “Real-Wealth” Investing
Protect Your Assets and Find Tangible Growth in the Wake of Faltering Stock, Bond, and Real Estate Prices
By Sean Hyman N
ot so many years ago, investing for guaranteed gains was a simple three-step
process: 1. Buy stocks. 2. Buy bonds. 3. Buy real estate. If you did that, your nest egg
grew seemingly without a hiccup or worry. Back then, fi guring an 8 percent annual return for retirement purposes was considered “conservative.” Indeed, the period between 1980 and 2000 was one of easy money if you played those cards right, and millions did. Baby Boomers rode this wave of prosperity, and it felt like the good times were here to stay.
That is, until the tech bubble burst
in 2000. Still, a couple of years later ebullience returned, housing went through the roof, and all seemed to be well on the surface . . . until right around 2007 and 2008. That’s when an epic economic crash reverberated worldwide, and the rules of the game painfully and immediately changed for all of us.
The question now facing everyone
looking toward a comfortable retirement is: Are you prepared for the fundamental changes underway in fi nancial markets . . . or will you be leſt behind, clinging to the failing
investments of years past as your nest egg crumbles before your very eyes?
I am not a psychic, but in looking to the future I can boldly predict one thing with certainty:
The way that wealth will
be created and retained in the coming years will be diff erent from the ways in which it was created in the past.
Real estate? Unfortunately for
anyone underwater on a mortgage right now, that will be dead money for years. The typical buy-and-hold stocks that did so well in the past? Those will suff er as the heady gains from the decades-long bull market dissipate, and stocks fall into a tepid, volatile pattern for another 15 to 20 years. And bonds off ering a yield of 2 percent (and headed lower) aren’t the place to put your money when the real infl ation rate is double or triple that yield.
If we’re living in a period in which
real estate, stocks, and bonds are regressing or stuck in neutral for the foreseeable future, what’s leſt for an investor who wants to attain fi nancial freedom like generations past?
My answer is, “real wealth”
strategies. What I mean by that is simple:
Wealth will be created and retained in coming years by investing in assets
SEAN HYMAN’S “Real Wealth” strategies exploit today’s realities
that the world absolutely needs to survive.
You see, you don’t need to own an
iPad or drink a Starbucks latte. But you do have a basic need for natural gas, oil, gasoline, corn, soybeans, wheat, copper . . . in short, all kinds of commodities that the world runs on.
This global demand for basic
commodities is insatiable and continues to grow despite economic turmoil in Europe, a slowdown in China, and money printing in Washington, D.C.
Take gasoline, for example.
Despite signifi cant infl ation over the past three years (the price has risen 46 percent), worldwide demand for gasoline has remained relatively unchanged. Coff ee prices have jumped 54 percent, but many people are still enjoying their cup of joe in the morning. And, despite a gallon of milk costing 11 percent more than it did three years ago, I haven’t met a single person who has stopped buying it. (As you know, if you have kids, you need milk in the house, no matter the price.)
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