Investment management is not that simple when one is dealing with his own investments. Maintaining a clear head even when the markets and investments are dropping is not that easy when you are dealing with your own hard-earned money. As the markets fluctuate, so can your mood and functionality, and often one’s emotional connection to his money prevents him from acting correctly – whether in fact to act, or simply to be patient and not do anything. Finding yourself in the maze of hedge funds, mutual funds, stocks, futures and commodities can be very confusing.

That is one good reason for handing your money over to investment advisors. (Of course another reason is that many people simply do not understand workings of the financial world, and therefore it is essential they turn to the fiscal experts.)

When one considers the biographies of financial leaders, like Warren Buffet, Donald Trump, Alan Quasha, and others, it is clear and apparent that knowledge and experience of investment management, banking, financing and economics – together with ambition, drive and a lot of hard work – for the basis and the backbone for financial success.

The various acquisitions and holding companies of Buffet illustrate this point, as does the life of Alan Quasha, who heads Quadrant Management Inc., Carret Asset Management LLC., HKN Harken, Acerno and was a past governor of the American Stock Exchange, among other positions. Quasha is also involved in many other companies and ventures and funds, including the Brain Trauma Foundation, the Visiting Committee at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and the the Overseers Committee on University Resources at Harvard University.