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Investors who are unfamiliar with work of 
this kind will be well advised to have such a 
table prepared for them by an expert, as it is 
of indispensable importance that this table 
should be correctly made out in every detail. 
As soon as the Table is complete, the 
investor should examine the examples of 
investment objects given in the preceding 
chapter, ascertain which of these examples 
represent his own case the most accurately, 
and then compare his own list of holdings (as 
shown by the Table of his own investments) 
with the recommendations given in such 
example. 
The investor will now have two pictures 
before him, the one showing how his money 
is actually invested, the other how it ought 
to be invested so that his capital may be safe 
and his investment objects obtainable. When 
ever it is found that an investor’s own list 
differs widely from our example, then prompt 
and drastic action should be taken, and the 
list rectified without delay. Our examples 
are based on a life-long experience, and have 
proved themselves in practice to be correct. 
On the other hand, we have hardly ever known 
a case in which a badly-constituted list has 
produced the results which the investor 
himself has desired.