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🧭 Chapter 7: Portfolio Building ​

🎯 In this chapter

Goals, asset allocation, rebalancing and behaviour.

Units in this chapter ​

  1. Goals and Time Horizon - Learn goal-based investing, why an emergency fund comes first, and why term and health insurance precede investing.
  2. Asset Allocation - Understand the core idea of asset allocation, matching it to risk profile, and illustrative allocations by life stage.
  3. Diversification and Rebalancing - Understand fund overlap, over-diversification, and the main methods used to rebalance a portfolio over time.
  4. Investor Behaviour - Understand loss aversion, herding, FOMO and overconfidence, and how to stay disciplined during market crashes.

📖 How to read

Go in order. Every new term is explained the first time it appears, and each unit ends with a keywords table.