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By: Nathan Knightley

I had never hired an investment management company before. In fact, I have always taken a very hands-on approach to business. I learned it from my father - himself an entrepreneur. He didn't believe in investment capital management through a broker. He amassed a financial fortune, and all while doing the paperwork himself. Of course, he worked about 80 hours every week and had a fatal hearth attack at the age of 58, so there are things about his way of living that I don't really want to emulate. Even so, managing investment myself was not an easy habit to break.

Nonetheless, after a while I simply couldn't handle it anymore. I am not sure if my investment portfolio had grown too diverse, too large, or if I simply didn't have my father's talent for figures. For whatever reason, I didn't have the time to manage the family business and manage my investments. It was obviously what I had to give up. I hired a good capital asset management corporation the very next week.

A lot of things have been difficult about the new mutual funds business. The most hard, of course, has been giving up some control on my investments. I tried to keep as tight a leash as possible as soon as I hired the investments management firm. I wanted to know about every activity, approve every decision, and in general. Always keep my hands in the pie. After a while, my broker talked to me honestly. He said that there was no point in having an investment manager if I was keeping trying to do all the work anyway. He then asked me very straightforwardly if I still wanted him to take care of my investment management or not. I backed down, understanding he was right.

However, the hardest thing about investment management has been recognizing the fact that this company has done a better job than I have with it. Even with the money that I have to pay them, I still make a large amount more off of my investments than I ever have before. My mutual funds portfolio has grown at twice its usual rate this year, and shows no sign of slowing down. I had almost expected having to take control back at first. Part of me had even hoped that investment management would turn out to be a bad experiment. After all, it is not easy to admit that a third party can be more efficient than you are.

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