For entrepreneurs
You already own too much of one thing.
Concentration built your wealth. It's also the single most likely thing to unbuild it. The founder's discipline is running the company like an optimist and the balance sheet like an actuary.
The exposure
Count how many ways you own the same risk.
Your income is the business
Salary, dividends, and the value of your time all flow from one company. If it has a bad year, every one of them has a bad year together.
Your net worth is the business
The equity you've built is real, but it's illiquid, hard to price, and impossible to sell in a hurry. Paper wealth is not the same as options.
Your country risk is the business's country risk
Same economy, same currency, same interest-rate cycle, same regulator. A portfolio that lives entirely where your business lives isn't a hedge — it's an echo.
The unwind
Three moves, none of them dramatic.
Pay the balance sheet first
A fixed, automatic transfer from business distributions to personal investments — decided once, in a calm month, and honoured like payroll.
Buy what the business isn't
Different asset classes, different currencies, different geographies. The point of the portfolio is to be uncorrelated with the risk you already carry every day.
Keep the firewall
Personal investments in personal names, separate from company accounts — so one bad year in the business can't reach across and undo a decade of building.
Start with the cash that’s already idle: surplus cash, put to work →
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