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Investing with a written mandate
Start with the Investment Policy Statement. Six chapters connect the written plan with cooling-off, behavior, intervention costs and ETF look-through.
The Investment Policy Statement, translated for the self-directed investor: a set of rules you write yourself, to bind today's calm mind to tomorrow's stressed one.
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For most investors, trading less beats trading a lot, because activity feels productive but as a rule it costs return.
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