{"id":1212,"date":"2022-04-06T09:02:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T09:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.financielle.co.uk\/https-www-financielle-co-uk-im-an-investor\/"},"modified":"2022-09-22T12:52:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T12:52:28","slug":"im-an-investor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.financielle.co.uk\/im-an-investor\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m An Investor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Close your eyes.\u00a0 Who do you see when you picture an investor?\u00a0 A man in a suit?\u00a0 Warren Buffet? One of the Dragons from Dragons Den?<\/p>\n<p>Whoever you picture, I suspect you picture someone that isn\u2019t you.<\/p>\n<p>Investing is often portrayed as a sophisticated, complicated and inaccessible activity that takes time, headspace and large sums of money to do.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1189\" src=\"https:\/\/www.financielle.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-01-at-10.45.26-300x263.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is simply not the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You are probably an investor already.\u00a0 Investing is not a pipe dream; it\u2019s a reality for most of us and you may just not have realised it yet. If you pay into a private or workplace pension, you are already an investor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The way pensions used to be positioned was a little dull.\u00a0 We all remember the pension guy who popped into the workplace once a year to talk about pensions; wouldn\u2019t it have been a sexier conversation if it had been positioned as investing?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>\u201cI had a lightbulb moment\u201d &#8211; Financielle Community Member<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I had a lightbulb moment last year. I always had a goal to start investing but felt that other things took up so much of my headspace that I couldn\u2019t ever give it enough focus or attention to get going. When speaking in the Financielle community, it was pointed out that by contributing to my pension I was in fact already an investor. I can\u2019t deny I felt immediately better, like a weight had been lifted. I had been investing for years. I just didn\u2019t know it, pensions were never positioned to me like this. I had a workplace pension but decided to combine my pensions into a PensionBee account so now I can see my investments whenever I want to, they follow me around in my pocket and it genuinely makes me feel good!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So let\u2019s throw out the stereotypes and start to make a more conscious effort to understand and track our investments, reflect on their performance and whether we\u2019re on track to hit our investing goals, for example the right retirement figure.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Repeat after us: I\u2019m an investor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PensionBee\u2019s website and mobile app gives you the tools and accessibility to your pension that could help you plan for a happy retirement. You also have control over what your pension is invested into including climate-conscious funds that fit with your values.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Be Pension confident with PensionBee <a href=\"https:\/\/clkuk.tradedoubler.com\/click?p=299291&amp;a=3208183&amp;g=24587286\">here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capital at risk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close your eyes.\u00a0 Who do you see when you picture an investor?\u00a0 A man in a suit?\u00a0 Warren Buffet? One of the Dragons from Dragons Den? Whoever you picture, I suspect you picture someone that isn\u2019t you. 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