Manage your own wealth/investments?

Hey all, heard this was a good place to come. Wondering if anyone is willing to offer advice on their personal WM? I have been fortunate enough to start accumulating my own wealth after a few good personal years, and have been managing my investments on my own. While I enjoy the personal investing and am making decent enough returns, it is becoming time consuming as I am in the middle of starting a family, busy with friends, and busy with work. While I know I have the knowledge to keep going, is the fee that comes with a manager worth the little extra time?
 

Just looking for suggestions, or what you have all implemented.

TIA!

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This would depend on your appetite for risk, the amount, the type of assets, and so many other aspects.
If you find a wealth manager who invests/makes decisions "like you would have" or has a few tricks you didn't know about, they might be worth the fees.

Looking at the various funds I dealt with... I always liked some aspects of each, but never the whole package.

The markets are also too complex atm to "hold and forget", actively managing your own portfolio takes a lot of time/effort though.

 

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