In my prior posts, I spoke a lot about retirement as well as index funds. There was a recent article in the Wall Street Journal blog titled “Are Index Funds Eating the World?” To be honest, this is kind of a click-bait title (as is mine)… but it worked. I was curious, so I read it. I’d recommend you guys read it as well. However, the long and short of it is: The “secret” of index funds […]
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There are a lot of different types of funds you can buy. So then… why index funds? The general idea behind index funds are that they should have the lowest expense ratios and should have no load or any other hidden costs. By having the lowest costs possible, and simply tracking the market rather than actively trying to beat it, you have the highest chance of coming out ahead over the long term compared to an actively managed, […]
Index Funds
Hey everyone, it’s Finance Fridays again and I’m going to talk about a topic that comes up just about everywhere. It’s Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) versus Mutual Funds. This concept may be difficult to understand for new investors, so I wanted to try to make it as easy to understand as possible. As such, I decided it needed a whole post. Stock Photo from: Pixabay So I’ve actually been meaning to write this post for a […]
ETFs versus Mutual Funds #illumedati
So… I made a small mistake. Two posts ago, in Could Index Funds Be Bad?, I said at the end that my next post would be about Actively Managed Funds (Gambling). However, for some reason I decided to make the next post, The Biggest Mistake of Your Life. I’m not sure why this happened. Nonetheless, here is that post:
Actively Managed Funds (Gambling)
Hey everyone, it’s Finance Fridays again. Today I’m just going to talk about “What’s the Deal with Real Estate?” What’s the Deal with Real Estate? Whenever people talk about “where to put their money” the usual echo’d answer is “Just buy real estate”. They may even throw in this quote: “Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.” – Mark Twain They will extol the virtues of passive income and downplay any issues they may have […]
What’s the Deal with Real Estate? #illumedati
1 Hey everyone, it’s Finance Fridays again. Today is just a short post to talk about “Rebalancing”. Rebalancing I’ve talked about rebalancing before. It’s not too difficult of a concept. I general, you make your investment plan and try to stick with it. However, because your investments can go up and down over the course of the year, you need to find time to rebalance your investments to the asset allocation you are comfortable with. For […]