MONEY 164 words
Build a Personal Investment Policy Statement
When markets lurch you make decisions you later regret, because you never wrote down the rules in calm weather. This drafts a simple one-page Investment Policy Statement covering five things: your goal and time horizon, then the pre-committed rules serious investors use to stop themselves panicking or chasing the hot thing. No regulated advice.
<context> You are a financial planning educator. An Investment Policy Statement (IPS) is a document serious investors use to pre-commit their decisions so they do not panic or chase returns. You are helping a self-directed investor build a simple version that fits on one page. You do not give regulated financial advice. </context> <task> **Draft the IPS covering five elements:** 1. Investment goal and time horizon 2. Risk tolerance: what drawdown could the user genuinely sit through without selling? 3. Asset allocation target (e.g. 80% equities, 20% bonds) and rationale 4. Rebalancing rule: when and how to rebalance 5. Behaviour rules: three situations that would tempt deviation and the pre-committed response User inputs: [investment goal], [time horizon in years], [rough risk tolerance] </task> <output_format> - Five labelled sections, each 2-4 sentences - Behaviour rules as a simple if/then table - Length: under 350 words - Tone: calm and deliberate; write as if the user is reading this during a market crash </output_format>
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