To continue on the same train of thought, major market indexes are always a safer way to
invest than individual stocks.
Not exact matches
I absolutely do not believe that mutual funds are a better investment
than individual stocks (companies that pay rising dividends over time) over the long run, so I
invest the rest of my savings in a taxable account (as well as maxing out my Roth IRA every year, of which
individual stocks are purchased).
Critics of
investing in
individual stocks in an IRA point to the fact that capital gains tax (currently 15 % -20 %) is likely lower
than your income tax level (20 - 40 %), so you lose that long term capital gains tax advantage in an IRA since you get taxed at your income rate.
ETF
Investing holds many obvious benefits over
individual stock - picking and several factors make ETFs Better
Than Mutual Funds.
In our taxable accounts now, I tend to let the dividends accumulate in cash and
invest in
individual stocks consistently over time rather
than dripping them all.
Lesson from this
investing mistake, I now have a rule that I don't hold more
than 3 % of my portfolio in any
individual stock.
In the short - term, the market's tide will raise and lower all boats, but value
investing works in the long - run, and unless you're in a late 1990's type mania, I think it probably is best to completely ignore the overall market and just focus on looking for undervalued
stocks of
individual companies that you think will be doing more business in five years
than they are now.
One of my favorite ways to diversify my portfolio is by
investing around a larger theme rather
than an
individual stock.
ETF
Investing holds many obvious benefits over
individual stock - picking and several factors make ETFs Better
Than Mutual Funds.
My idea to be partially
invested in
stocks is this, what about screening «
individual stocks» for candidates that meet a PE / 10 of less
than 10 (or whatever one chooses) and building a partial position in those
stocks, maybe only a 30 % position but at least a position?
I focus primarily on active investors who use mutual funds to
invest in
stocks, rather
than those who want to select their own
individual securities, since that involves different and more complicated issues.
Bogle finally gives readers permission to «play» in the market by buying
individual stocks or actively - managed mutual funds as long as they promise NOT to
invest more
than 5 % of their assets.
An emphasis on this investment strategy - as opposed to growth -
stock investing, where cash flow is reinvested in a business rather
than paying dividends - is often chosen by
individuals living off the income from their investment portfolios.
Through an IRA, you can
invest in
individual stocks, which opens the door to ETFs, which are nothing more
than mutual funds which trade on a
stock exchange just like
stocks.
Q: It seems like I will make more money
investing in
individual stocks than diversified mutual funds?
If you have more
than $ 5,000 and don't want to play the
stock market, you might consider
investing in
individual short - term bonds.
Easier
than DIY
investing with
individual stocks, but harder
than picking ETFs since you have to offset higher fees.
Investing in diversified funds is safER
than buying
individual company
stocks.
«
Investing clean» means avoiding complex products and sticking to the basics:
individual stocks and bonds, plain vanilla GICs, and low - cost funds that don't use leverage or other exotic strategies that promise more
than they can deliver.
So now, our «active» investment style of holding
individual stocks actually carries lower costs
than if we were to
invest our clients» money in passive index funds.
The firm utilizes a unique top - down approach to
investing, focusing on macro trends rather
than individual stock selection.
Investing in mutual funds is easier, less risky, takes less time, and costs less cash than investing in individual stocks
Investing in mutual funds is easier, less risky, takes less time, and costs less cash
than investing in individual stocks
investing in
individual stocks or bonds.
Index
investing is inherently lower risk
than investing in
individual stocks.
The second camp is still convinced that, through diligence and careful assessment of
individual stocks, they can achieve better results
than index
investing.
The early research on index
investing has been aimed at making the case for
investing in an index rather
than picking
individual stocks.
Doesn't make me better
than anyone else, but I do think that some people probably shouldn't be
invested in
stocks, and certainly not
individual stocks.
Question: Rather
than investing in a portfolio of index funds, would I not be better off by simply assembling a collection of well - known
individual stocks that have a history of increasing their... Read More
Ultimately I believe it's incredibly difficult (if not impossible) to accurately time and predict the market 100 % of the time when it comes to
investing so a more passive
investing approach makes a lot more sense to me
than fiddling around with
individual stocks.
Many
individuals have grown rich through part - time involvement in real estate
investing — probably more
than have done so through the
stock market.
Based on the annualized returns in the first two statistics here, these results would seem to endorse
individual stock picking rather
than investing in something mundane like an S&P 500 index fund.
The utility of
stock funds — By now it should be pretty apparent that it's much easier, less risky, and generally results in better returns, when the
individual invests in
stock funds rather
than specific
stocks.
Rather
than my previous experience of
investing in
individual stocks which is synonymous with the old adage of «having your eggs in one basket», mutual fund investments provide exposure to hundreds of
stocks.
I've several times repeated my advice on
investing in
individual stocks: do it if you enjoy it, but don't expect to do better
than index funds over the long haul.
I rather
invest in
individual stocks / options where my returns are greater
than 200 % where as the S&P is 47 % since 2002.
If those $ 2000 are «funny money» that you don't mind losing but would be really excited about maybe getting 100 % return in less
than 5 years, well, feel free to put them into an
individual stock of an obscure small company, but be aware that you'd be gambling, not
investing, and you can probably get better quotes playing Roulette.
While these fees are much lower
than those of mutual funds, you could technically avoid those fees by going out and buying all the
individual stocks or bonds the fund
invests in.
While these fees are much lower
than those of active funds, you could technically avoid those fees too by going out and buying all the
individual stocks or bonds the fund
invests in.
If you
invest today and leave it to grow with long - term results in mind, you will be in better shape
than chasing around
individual stock tips that you hope will increase in the next few weeks or months.
How about taxing profit on ETFs at higher rate, based on the proven fact, that index investment involves less risk
than investing in
individual stocks, for example?
Women surveyed were slightly more conservative investors
than men, BMO reports, as 19 % of women prefer to
invest in
individual stocks, compared to 25 % of their male counterparts.
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For those
investing in
individual stocks, the benefits to looking past the next quarter or the next year, to
investing in companies that may take several years before they can show good results, to truly taking a long - term perspective when evaluating a
stock investment remain as large, if not larger,
than they have ever been.
The principal risks of
investing in the Funds are:
stock market risk (
stocks fluctuate in response to the activities of
individual companies and to general
stock market and economic conditions),
stock selection risk (Fenimore utilizes a value approach to
stock selection and there is risk that the
stocks selected may not realize their intrinsic value, or their price may go down over time), and small - cap risk (prices of small - cap companies can fluctuate more
than the
stocks of larger companies and may not correspond to changes in the
stock market in general).
Investing in a mutual fund requires less investment sophistication than investing in individual stocks
Investing in a mutual fund requires less investment sophistication
than investing in individual stocks
investing in
individual stocks or ETF's.
Investing in individual stocks is inherently more risky than investing in mutual funds
Investing in
individual stocks is inherently more risky
than investing in mutual funds
investing in mutual funds or ETF's.
Since an index fund spreads the risk amongst the
stocks in the chosen index, it is less risky
than investing in
individual stocks.
In the short - term, the market's tide will raise and lower all boats, but value
investing works in the long - run, and unless you're in a late 1990's type mania, I think it probably is best to completely ignore the overall market and just focus on looking for undervalued
stocks of
individual companies that you think will be doing more business in five years
than they are now.
However, I second the comments of others that if you're looking to
invest a small amount in the
stock market, a low cost mutual fund or ETF, specifically an index fund, is a safer and potentially cheaper option
than purchasing
individual stocks.
Sure, index funds might be a better option
than individual stock investing, but who has ever gotten excited about index funds?
Investing in
individual emerging market
stocks was a much taller order then
than today, so I gravitated towards investment fund shares and warrants.