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If you are to have any chance of making a real return on your money, you need to invest in things that have a chance of outperforming inflation.

Arguably the most important reason why many people fail at investment is that they fail to own a sufficiently wide range of investment products.

This is one of those strange aspects of human nature. Learning how to run your own financial affairs as a life skill, which must rank up there as one of the very best for having a positive impact on all other areas of your life, yet most of us invest our time learning about the vast range of other, far less useful life skills, and totally neglect finance.