What type of investor are you?

[shri]

- A fully hands-on investor. This type of investor likes to handpick the stocks and bonds matching their allocation strategy
- A partially hands-on investor combines holding individual securities with mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) or closed-end funds.
- The index investor prefers index mutual funds and ETFs over individual securities.
- The fund investor is similar to the index investor with the exception that they consider owning actively managed funds.
- The combo hands-on/works with an adviser investor combines using an adviser with personal control of investments.
- The adviser investor hires a professional to carry out their allocation strategy.

Inspired by a question from AAII...

https://www.aaii.com/investor-update...neteff20200716

[greenmark]

Hmmn, according to the definitions above I'm an index investor.

I have an issue on whether the labels he uses are appropriate, but that would be an argument about semantics.

[traineeinvestor]

The second and fifth choices overlap.

[shri]

The second and fifth choices overlap.

I think the distinction is that 2 is partial because they hold a mix of individual securities + passive/active funds where they do not control the underlying instruments. However "2" makes all the decisions on his own, without using an advisor.

'5' does / might do what 1 - 4 do, but has solicited advice from a "professional" of sorts...

(After typing that... I changed my choice to 5 - simply because I can..)

[Kowloon72]

Partially hands-on describes me to a tee. I actually "believe" in passive index investing more, but it's boring la...

[huja]

A subset of "Advisor" is robo-advisor

[shri]

A subset of "Advisor" is robo-advisor

Charges less and dreams of electric sheep ....

[huja]

Charges less and dreams of electric sheep ....

lol . . . and nerves of steel.

[periphery831]

So what kind of investor am I?

[chuckster007]

So what kind of investor am I?

based on the other threads, you're a hated wanna be investor lol