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Most relevant investment thresholds

Each investor has a unique sum of money to invest in. Thresholds that are often seen as the most relevant are $250,000 and $500,000. Most investors who have more than $500,000 to invest (or even simply more than $250,000) have plenty of options to be advised by professionals on how to invest. This is a very different picture for investors who have less than $100,000 to invest. These investors are looking for advises too but they are often rejected by financial advisors because their portfolios are simply too small. Indeed, many investors disregard little clients, which makes sense in a number of ways. However, there is plenty of information available online about investments so these little investors do try to get the best of it. The problem is that it is very hard for an average investor to distinguish rubbish and valuable information. Another issue is that almost half of small investors having a financial advisor think that their advisors have never told them about planning for important financial goals such as retirement. Why? The reason is simple, financial advisors cannot reasonable spend too much time and energy on clients with small portfolios simply because this is not a profitable activity for them to do so. One good thing is that robot advisers are now reducing the investment cost and lowering the minimum investment level of a portfolio to $5,000 or even less. This is a kind of revolution in the industry. It is nonetheless important to note that these robots are not really effective yet as technology stands. In other words, we still live in a world where the rich become richer.