Thursday, August 2, 2007

Seinfeld, and the logic of investing

Like anybody with a TV and some sense of humor, I watch a fair share of Seinfeld reruns whenever I am too lazy to do anything else. In one episode, there was this funny bit on the show towards the tail end when he does the stand-up part; he was talking about the whole "let your money work for you" part of the basis of successful investing and wealth management.

He said something like, "I don't get the whole let your money work for you bit. I like to do the work and let my money relax. Because ever so often, it happens that my money that I send out to do the work, decides to disappear. You go and check what happened and they say...yeah, your money, was no good....showed up late for work, took long lunch breaks, etc....so we had to let him go". :-)) Really funny stuff.....

Anyways, the reason I sort of decided to write that Seinfeld bit down was mainly to not forget such a cool joke and partly because very recently I was thinking about all the things you learn about financial planning, wealth management and investing and if the knowledge of those things really does get you ahead in the game? Whenever I stumble upon an article or blog post or a book talking about good practices and steps that one should take, I realize that I am already doing 90% of the things mentioned, but there is no instant grading of what really worked? There is very little instant gratification unless you make an even bigger effort of analyzing things to the death and looking into the future.

Wouldn't it be nice to have something like a score that you could look at and see if some steps, like making two payments a month (if your mortgage company allows) on your home mortgage instead of just the one monthly, is really doing an excellent to your financial future and in turn encouraging you to do more. Maybe that is a really nice opportunity to come up with such a system. Say for example like the credit score (not necessarily the best example, but lets go with it for now), where you have a "financial health score". It is determined by a complicated formula that takes into account your age, income, active investments, retirement portfolios, cost of living, lifestyle and a ton of other things and gives you a number to look at, to analyze and work with. That would be instant gratification. That would make me want to really do things to get my score higher. It appeals to the natural competitive nature of all human beings.

Oh well, its a good thought......and its never bad to dream.

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