You had a bad year in 2025

You never guess right.

In 2025 you thought the world markets would have a bad year, perhaps still due to covid19.

In 2026 you may think the markets remain overheated and is due for a correction if not a crash.

You are left in doubt. And you never get the guesses right anyway?

How could you? You're relying on the advice of a financial advisor, and ultimately your own gut instinct is based on the stories you hear during the course of your work and daily career. You're relying on the news. You're relying on word of mouth on what is investible along the grapevine.

Southpaw Confessions is very keen to hear from readers about their own experiences, with regards to investing and personal finance. Indeed, we may be able to help more if you could elaborate on your own experiences.

A number of questions come to mind.

In the above example, would you suffer from FOMO (fear of missing out?)

Does aggressive and not conservative investing cause you to have sleepless nights if you're overleveraged or overextended?

Are you therefore always erring in the side of caution, or are you trying to take calculated risks when you can?

Without necessarily disclosing names, what has your financial advisor been saying to you, recently and in years past?

Have they been suggesting that you put your money in unit trusts or mutual funds?

Book Recommendation

What do you think if, for example, the book recommendation were to read Adam Smith's economics classic, A Wealth of Nations?

Is going down that rabbit hole too much of a new area for you?

Would you surprise you to have to learn economics or would you insist on taking control of your finances in another way?

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