“If you want to understand what is possible when professional advice is collaborative, intelligent, accountable and sincere, read this book and your expectations of financial advice will gain a new dimension. Maili Wong is the quintessential financial professional, a trusted confidant who combines sophisticated, proven investment strategies for portfolio management with her strong personal commitment to help her clients achieve their life long ambitions and needs.”
“As an experienced and successful high-net-worth investor, I’ve had some experience with disappointing investment advisors and experimented with high risk/return options that still did not deliver results. Maili’s Smart Risk approach shows the way to a healthier relationship with your investment advisor… and a stronger portfolio. Read it. And make the shifts to Smart Risk.”
“When being told by your advisor for the umpteenth time to “have a long term time horizon” no longer abates your fears, read this book. Risk is the nameless fear too many financial professionals fail to talk about. Maili clearly explains how you don’t have to leave the management of risk to the hands of fate and provides a guide on how to protect capital and prosper during periods like the 2007–2008 financial crisis.”
“As Dean of the Sauder School of Business, I have the pleasure of meeting many amazing graduates of UBC. Very few of these interactions can compare with the pleasure and amazement of meeting Maili Wong. Her story is a metaphor for the power of intelligence, education, thoughtful analysis, perseverance and grace — in short, a roadmap for the right way forward in personal investment, high finance or any other endeavor in business or life. In addition to smart, practical financial advice, there is inspiration and wisdom in this book. I commend the author, and recommend it to you.”
“Maili Wong’s superbly and clearly written book, Smart Risk is a timely, educational and motivating read that challenges us to rethink our attitudes regarding life balance, retirement needs and risk-taking, to achieve our endpoints. It also provides a roadmap to follow to achieve our personal and monetary goals. The sharing of her own remarkable life experiences, and those of others, makes the book wonderfully real and motivating. It encourages us to use the tools given to overcome our innate fearful response to change and risk, which is all around us.”