Financial Advisor Empowers People To Invest On Their Own

• Invest in the Market. In his book "The Smartest Investment Book You'll Ever Read" (Perigee Books, $19.95; HarperCollins audio CD, $22.95), Solin says that the most important decision that investors can make is deciding how much of their portfolio should be in stocks and how much should be in bonds. There are many questionnaires available online that will assist them in doing so. Once that decision has been made, they should only invest in broadly diversified index funds or Exchange Traded Funds.

• Understand that market returns are superior returns. Solin notes that the average investor achieves far less than market returns and that fewer than 5% of mutual funds equal or exceed market returns over the long term. Solin says that the goal of investors should be to achieve market returns all the time.

A leading securities arbitration lawyer and a principal in Academic Wealth Management, LLP, Solin is a Registered Investment Advisor. He has appeared on "The O'Reilly Factor," "MSNBC's Week-end Economic Review" and "CNN/Money."

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