{"id":41,"date":"2014-08-20T15:12:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T15:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fundingmatters.com\/blog\/fmi\/?p=41"},"modified":"2014-08-20T15:12:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T15:12:24","slug":"your-most-important-assets-are-outside-your-portfolio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundingmatters.com\/blog\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Your Most Important Assets Are Outside Your Portfolio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fundingmatters.com\/blog\/fmi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Photoday.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fundingmatters.com\/blog\/fmi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Photoday-300x232.png\" alt=\"Photoday\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fundingmatters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Photoday-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/fundingmatters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Photoday.png 926w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Cambria;\">You might have been advised that the most crucial elements of wealth creation and preservation centres on your investment portfolio.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Cambria;\">As I see each day in our practice at FUNDING matters the huge financial issues in our lives are the success of our marriages, the ability of our children to live productive and fruitful lives and our commitment and engagement to create wellness by healthy eating, exercising and living.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Cambria;\">If any of these lifestyle elements aren\u2019t working smoothly or worse, if they are in a destructive mode then there is generally a heap of money going out the door to fix these problems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Cambria;\">If you are glued to your portfolio without paying much attention to your world outside of your financial statements chances are you are setting yourself up for failure, regardless how your investments perform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Cambria;\">Discuss family matters with your children, update your wills, take care of your affairs.\u00a0 Make a provision for charity to benefit society and in the end benefit by reducing your taxes through your philanthropy.\u00a0 Leave a legacy for your family and society.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might have been advised that the most crucial elements of wealth creation and preservation centres on your investment portfolio.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t. As I see each day in our practice at FUNDING matters the huge financial issues in our lives are the success of our marriages, the ability of our children to live productive and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fundingmatters.com\/blog\/?p=41\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Your Most Important Assets Are Outside Your Portfolio<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,13],"tags":[7,14],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-estate-planning","category-giftabulator","category-leave-a-legacy","tag-estate-planning-2","tag-legacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundingmatters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundingmatters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundingmatters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundingmatters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundingmatters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fundingmatters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/fundingmatters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundingmatters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundingmatters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundingmatters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}