Financial · Financial
Invest today
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Cue
A fixed point in your routine, often paired with checking your savings transfer
Behaviour
Make a contribution to an investment account, any amount, any vehicle
Reward
Quiet confidence that your money is compounding, even when markets are volatile
2-minute version
Open your investment app and look at your account balance
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What to do
Make a contribution to an investment account today — index fund, retirement account, crypto, or any investment vehicle. Amount is less important than the consistency of the behaviour.
Why it works
Compound growth over decades is the primary wealth-building mechanism. Time in market is the most powerful variable. Consistent, automatic, boring investing consistently outperforms active management.
Research backing
DALBAR's long-running Quantitative Analysis of Investor Behavior consistently finds that the average investor underperforms the broader market by several percentage points annually, primarily due to emotional buying and selling, which consistent automatic investing is specifically designed to avoid.
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