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15th Nov 2024

Fix it Friday Ep. 1 - Particular Investment Challenges of Successful Entrepreneurs, Executives and Business People

Welcome to Fix It Friday on the Crazy Wealthy Podcast, hosted by Jonathan Blau, CEO of Fusion Family Wealth. In these bite-sized, bi-weekly episodes, we dive into common money mistakes and explore the behavioral biases that even the most successful entrepreneurs and executives often overlook when investing.

Today, Jonathan discusses a critical misconception: success in business doesn’t automatically mean success in investing. Many high-achievers fall into the trap of overconfidence, mistaking their business skills for investment prowess. Join us as we unpack these pitfalls and provide practical insights for better decision-making in uncertain times. Whether you're a seasoned executive or an aspiring entrepreneur, there's something here to help you strengthen your financial foundation.

IN THIS EPISODE:

  • [1:02] Welcome to Fix It Friday. 
  • [2:28] Being a successful businessperson does not make you a great investor
  • [4:07] Example of why success in business does not translate to investments
  • [7:30] Skills to run a business and investment skills are not the same
  • [9:01] Overconfidence leads to investment mistakes
  • [9:43] Take advantage of this podcast to learn how to succeed in investing

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

  • Success in business does not automatically translate to success in investing. Successful businesspeople often need help investing, such as overconfidence bias, where they believe their business acumen guarantees investment success. This can lead to poor decision-making, and they may need more behavioral guidance than they realize to avoid costly mistakes.
  • Entrepreneurs often thrive by going "all in" on a big idea, investing all their skills, energy, and capital to drive their venture's success—sometimes against steep odds. However, to succeed as long-term investors, they must adopt an opposite approach: spreading their resources across multiple investments to manage risk and ensure steady growth rather than concentrating everything on one high-stakes venture.
  • Successful entrepreneurs and executives often fall into costly habits around money and uncertainty, driven by a tendency to attribute success to skill rather than luck. This bias can prevent learning from mistakes, as failures are more likely to be blamed on external factors. Recognizing these tendencies and seeking insights into correct investment strategies can help counteract these biases.

RESOURCE LINKS 

Fusion Family Wealth - Website

Jonathan Blau - LinkedIn

ABOUT THE HOST: 

Jonathan is the President and CEO of Fusion Family Wealth, a firm he founded in 2013 that emphasizes behavioral finance to help clients make rational financial decisions in uncertain times. Known for his clear and engaging approach, Jonathan is a sought-after speaker in wealth management and investing. His background includes senior roles in tax and estate planning at Arthur Andersen, and he holds a BS in Finance, an MS in Taxation, and an MBA in Accounting. Based on Long Island with his family, Jonathan is active in the local business community and supports causes like the Middle Market Alliance and Sunrise Day Camp. He enjoys boating in his spare time.

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Transcript

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At the end of this podcast, a copy of fusion's current written disclosure brochure, discussing our advisory services and fees is available upon request or www. fusionfamilywealth. com.

Welcome to the Crazy Wealthy Podcast with your host, Jonathan Blau. Whether you're just starting out or are an experienced investor, join Jonathan as he seeks to illuminate and demystify the complexities of making consistently rational financial decisions under conditions of uncertainty. He'll chat with professionals from the advice world, entrepreneurs, executives,

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The term fix it is really just because we're identifying a systematic error that we're all by human nature prone to make, uh, how to identify it and how to fix it. Uh, so, so we thought, uh, What better thing to call the, uh, the short version of these podcasts, uh, Fix It Fridays. And they'll be coming out, our plan is, uh, every other Friday.

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And, and, um, I've always said is we have a reflexive association between wealth and wisdom, particularly when it comes to. Money decisions in particular comes to investing. What I mean by that is we automatically assume that if somebody's successful in business, that that would translate because they're wealthy and successful, uh, and proven, so to speak in business, that, that, that the skills that led them to be successful in business in their mind and, and the outside world's mind should definitely lead them to be able to be successful investors.

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More often than not, close to a hundred hands go up. By definition, only half the room could be above average. Uh, and that's how we think of ourselves. So when we're successful, we tend to get, uh, overconfident in our abilities. And so that overconfidence bias acts like a magnifying glass, meaning that, uh, human nature And the mistakes we make about decisions and money are pre programmed into all of us.

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But we're, we're, we're, we're magnifying them by, by, by an order of magnitude, uh, because of our overconfidence. So one of the first examples I'll give is, is, uh, entrepreneurs who are successful and executives who are successful are oftentimes running businesses that have multiple divisions and, uh, they, they tend to look.

Uh, often quarterly at the divisions and they'll say, gee, you know, these, these two divisions are doing poorly for the last two quarters. So maybe I'm going to jettison them. I'm going to sell them off, close them down. I'm going to take the resources that were supporting those, what I call failing divisions and put those resources into the divisions that are doing really well, knocking the lights out.

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But investors treat as long term, so they sell, uh, they sell off those, those companies thinking that the problem will get resolved and they sell at a discount. And then growth, which is the other style. Growth are companies that are selling at a premium to the average company because investors expect that the growth of their earnings will also be premium.

to the earnings of the average company. And so those two styles go in and out of favor, uh, at times, and again, magnitude's unpredictable. And so what happens is, when a, when an entrepreneur or an executive who's used to jettisoning, uh, underperforming, uh, divisions, and putting money into outperforming divisions, they tend to look at their portfolio, uh, diversification mechanics the same way.

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So let me buy more of the emerging markets and let me sell some of the expensive. That's not what they do. What they do is they look at the sectors that are meant to diversify each other by performing. Differently than each other at different times, they tend to look at them at division. So let me get rid of the emerging markets because it's a bad division.

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So, so it's a big mistake that we make, uh, as entrepreneurs and executives who are successful and used to managing your portfolio, uh, the same way they might manage the business. The other thing that's a challenge for entrepreneurs and executives who are successful Is that they, um, they, they tend to, uh, particularly in the case of entrepreneurs need skills to build their companies and their wealth from entrepreneurship that are not just different than the skills needed to succeed as a long term investor.

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And so, In order to succeed as an investor, you need to do the opposite. You need to not concentrate all of your energy and money into one, uh, companies or sector, but to spread it out and diversify. The goal with investing is not to find what's the best for you, highest returning business I can invest in and borrow maybe to invest in, but what is the, uh, what are the best returns I can find that I can likely stay with for multi decades because compounding.

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The overconfidence that we develop because of our success as entrepreneurs and, and, uh, and executives, uh, leads to worse and more costly, uh, behaviors when it comes to money and uncertainty. The other thing I'll say is, um, when we're, and I'm an entrepreneur who's successful, fortunately, so I, I relate to it.

Uh, we tend not only to be overconfident, but we also tend to attribute much less, uh, uh, luck to our success. than skill. The causal relationship of skill is something that we often always look to, uh, to, to account for our successes. We only look to luck, um, when, when it, when we don't succeed, we look to blame an outside factor and that leads to, uh, not learning from our mistakes and so forth.

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About the Host

Jonathan is the President and CEO of Fusion Family Wealth, a financial advisory firm he
founded in November 2013. Behavioral finance is an important aspect of his business and he brings a thought-provoking perspective and clarity to his work with clients by seeking to teach them how to consistently make rational money decisions under conditions of uncertainty.

Jonathan is a sought-after speaker for podcasts and media publications, bringing a fresh wealth management and investing perspective shaped by insights from the world of behavioral finance.

His insights and clarity on working with clients make him a distinguished voice in the field, illuminating and demystifying the complexities of financial decision making.
Jonathan honed his planning and technical skills during his tenure as a senior tax and estate planning specialist in the Tax and Family Wealth Planning division of Arthur Andersen from 1992 to 1996. In his free time Jonathan enjoys boating.


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