Diversify your investments, generate greater returns, and leverage your assets for a definite and brighter financial future
When it comes to growing your wealth, there are clear systems and smart strategies you can leverage to ensure your investments will successfully outperform in the long term. In Intelligent Leverage, you’ll discover how successful investors grow their wealth and ensure their financial security - through everyday investments that can generate millions. With these strategies, you too can take control of your assets and be empowered in where you put your money.
Veteran investment manager Paul Huggins shows how to leverage every opportunity that comes your way. With his guidance, you’ll rethink your current way of planning and investing so that you can feel certain about your financial future. You’ll learn how to build an asset base and the right networks, creating an ecosystem that will catapult you into the next stratosphere of financial independence.
- Understand how economic forces and environment impact your financial goals
- Learn how to supplement your superannuation with time-tested assets like property and shares, as well as more advanced leveraging instruments
- Hone your investor mindset: leverage your time and energy, assess risk versus returns, and learn how to do more with less
- Get better strategies to manage your assets, from protecting what you have through insurances and hedging, to minimising your tax bill
- Set goals and establish a step-by-step plan to monitor progress and growth in real time.
Intelligent Leverage is a handbook for financial success. Its straightforward, logical approach to savvy investing will show you how to revolutionise your lifestyle and better plan for a future that is financially free.
Table of Contents
About the author ix
Introduction xi
Part I: Fundamentals of intelligent leveraging 1
1. Leverage and power: Make it, keep it and leverage it 3
2. Superannuation: Too slow, too risky, too expensive 25
3. Land and residential property: Your best investment 35
4. Shares: Their importance in the investment mix 47
5. Tax: How to manage and structure it correctly 63
6. Leverage: Advanced instruments for building wealth 73
Part II: Leveraging tools and approaches 85
7. Time, money, energy and people: Leverage your resources 87
8. Financial success: It starts with you 97
9. Decision making: Adopt an investing mindset 113
10. Risk mitigation: How to leverage insurance and hedging 125
11. Artificial intelligence: The next leveraging tool 135
Part III: Honing the skill of intelligent leverage 145
12. Achievement: Know what you want 147
13. Planning: The key to intelligent leverage 155
Postscript 167
Acknowledgements 175