I have been working for five years and have decided that I should do something with my savings in order to provide me with sufficient funds to retire with and maybe even do it early. At this point in time I'm not worried about having to provide for children because there are no plans to have any. I have established myself in my job and receive a decent salary and do not need to supplement my income at this time.
             My objectives for my investment strategy are to first pay off any student loans that may still be outstanding from university. My second objective would to be able to accumulate enough funds to pay off a mortgage on a house. The third and most important objective would be to have enough funds to retire with, preferably at an earlier age than sixty-five. It would also be nice to be able to generate enough funds to be able to help my family especially my sister.
             After considering my objectives and my personal situation at this time, I feel I can take a rather aggressive path in my investment endeavors. Being young and having time to make up for any losses later on this would be the time to take the risk on any potentially high growth areas that I can get myself into. I also have the flexibility because I have no dependents that I have to support. I have decided to go with the following asset allocation strategy: 10% in savings, 20% in income and 70% in growth. (See figure 1)
             I've decided that I'm going to have 60% of my funds in North America and 40% of that will be in Canada, 20% in the Pacific Rim and 20% in Europe. The reason that my Canadian amount is so high is because if I can't invest in my own country who else is going to? In addition, Canada has a lot to offer as far as growth potential.
             For the savings part of my portfolio I am going to stick to savings bonds. Sav
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