Invest Your Way
How to Grow Wealth on Your Terms
Mark LaMonica & Shani Jayamanne, hosts of Morningstar Australia's Investing Compass podcast release their new book.
A book that focuses on the investor, instead of the investments. Your guide to successful investing, with actionable insights and practical applications.
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The pathway to financial freedom
Gain a new perspective on success
Throughout history, successful investors have been portrayed in certain ways. Following this conventional view of success leads investors down the wrong pathway. Learn about the actual drivers of investing success.
Create a personalised plan to achieve your goal
Too much financial commentary focuses on investments rather than the people investing. There are too many aspirational messages that lack the practical steps to put a plan in action. We outline a step-by-step approach to achieve your definition of financial freedom.
Learn from our example
Successful investing depends in large part on self-reflection, on understanding yourself and what you want from life. Mark and Shani outline their personal experiences to illustrate the process every successful investor needs to go through even if your conclusion about what success looks like differs from theirs.
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After reading Invest Your Way you will have completed the following:
- Discover why everyone can be a successful investor
- Develop a financial philosophy to guide your journey to financial freedom
- Understand how compounding can help you achieve your goals
- Gain introspection on the behaviours holding you back from success
- Create quantified goals that provide structure to your decision making and limit mistakes
- Reimagine risk to focus on what is important to you
- Define a personalised investment strategy that serves as a plan to achieve your goals
- Learn the criteria to find the best investments for you
We’ve designed this book to meet you wherever you are on your journey to financial independence.
We want to remind you of things you may have lost sight of in the relentless churn of daily life.
We want to teach you new things.
We want to inspire you to become more introspective, to get to know yourself a little better.
More than anything we want you to gain confidence that you are on the right path.
This book is one part theory and one part practical exercises to help you create a plan to achieve financial independence.
This is your blueprint to take the next step with your finances and to get everything you want out of life.
Meet Mark and Shani
Mark LaMonica
Mark’s father's banking career meant Mark moved around a lot as a child, from Taiwan, Hong Kong and San Francisco to Sydney's eastern suburbs. He spent his high-school years in New York. From an early age he saw investing as just something people did. He was gifted his first shares when he was seven and bought his first shares as a young teenager. He thought it was natural that people understood how to invest and were comfortable doing it. This worldview was challenged in early adulthood after his parents divorced and his highly educated and accomplished mother was consumed by fear and confusion about what to do with her money and whom to trust.
Shani Jayamanne
Shani migrated from Sri Lanka with her family to Sydney's western suburbs when she was a child. Her family made sacrifices to give Shani opportunities and she stretched herself to take advantage of them.
Investing wasn't a topic of conversation when she was growing up, and it wasn't until she was an adult that she started to think of investing as a means of transforming her life. She learned this early in her career by observing clients of the prestigious fund manager where she worked. As she gained confidence and knowledge she decided she didn't want to be the only beneficiary of the insights she was accumulating. She wanted to help the people who didn't know the pathway she was on even existed. People who didn't think investing was for them. Shani made her first investment at 23.