Savings and investment

The investor temperament game

Seven rounds. You receive an imaginary $25,000 and the markets do as they please. Your decisions reveal your relationship with risk better than any direct question.

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What this game is, and what it is not

This is not your investor profile. The investor profile is a regulatory document. It is established with your representative, from a complete interview covering your financial and personal situation, your objectives, your horizon and your risk tolerance. It is recorded, dated, and a copy is given to you. No online questionnaire can take its place, and the responsibility of knowing you stays with your representative.

This game is not a recommendation. It proposes no product, no fund, no investment strategy, and announces no return. It gives you a vocabulary and a starting point for the conversation.

Scope of services. Jean Carrière is a financial security advisor and a group insurance and annuity advisor, AMF certificate 259457. On the investment side, he offers segregated funds issued by insurers, along with annuities, RRSPs, TFSAs and FHSAs taken out with an insurer. He does not hold the title of mutual fund dealing representative: mutual funds and individual securities fall under a separate registration.

Round 1 of 7 · Horizon

You receive $25,000. You will not touch it before…

How long the money stays invested changes everything else.

Round 2 of 7 · Reaction to a drop

Six months later, the markets fall back. Your statement shows 20 % less.

This is the question that best distinguishes temperaments. Answer as you would really act, not as you would like to act.

Round 3 of 7 · Reaction to a rise

The following year, one of your investments has risen well. It now weighs more heavily in your portfolio than planned.

How you handle a gain says as much as how you handle a loss.

Round 4 of 7 · Capacity for loss

What temporary drop could you absorb without changing your life plans?

It is not about what you accept in theory, but what your budget takes in practice.

Round 5 of 7 · Need for liquidity

Something unexpected happens. Would you have to draw on this amount?

An investment you have to dip into does not have the same real horizon as the one announced.

Round 6 of 7 · Knowledge

An advisor talks to you about « volatility » and « asset allocation ».

No one is being judged here. Knowing your limits is an asset, not a flaw.

Round 7 of 7 · Objective

In the end, this money mostly has to…

The objective guides the strategy as much as risk tolerance does.

Result · temperament in the face of risk

ConservativeBalancedDynamic

Your decisions

This result describes a temperament observed from seven imaginary decisions. It takes no account of your income, your debts, your taxation or your insurance coverage — all of which are part of a real investor profile.
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Jean receives a copy and writes to you himself. It is he, not a machine, who will establish your investor profile if you decide to go further.