Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 04:09:25 CST
From: "James Ethridge" 
Newsgroups: misc.invest.financial-plan
Subject: How to devise a long-term investment plan?
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I want to formulate a long-term investment plan.  One that considers my age, 
risk, goals, lifestyle, asset allocation, things I may not see coming, etc.. 
How did you do this?  Is this grasping at the wind, just a concept in your 
head?

If you google this (changing the name many times), you will see how 
important and 'critical' it is to have and follow one.  But I am not able to 
find a website that will help devise one.  Peter Lynch once said, "If you're 
going to need money within the near future to pay for college tuition or put 
a down payment on a house - the stock market is not the place to be. You can 
flip a coin over where the market is headed over the next year. But if 
you're in the market for the long haul - five, ten or twenty years - then 
time is on your side and you should stick to your long-term investment 
plan." Thank you for any advice on constructing  a long-term investment 
plan.