One thing I try to explain over and over again when
talking about index investing is how hard it is to out - smart the market consistently.
Heh you know it's RRSP season when all the personal finance bloggers are
talking about index investing.
Not exact matches
I recently met up with Alvin and Jon from BigFatPurse.com (I know right, that's a freakin» awesome name) to
talk about my hot - off - the - press ebook Automatic
Investing: The No - Stress Guide to
Index Investing in Singapore.
Hedge funds which benchmark against an
index such as the S&P 500 and can go anywhere,
invest in bonds, loans, distressed debt, currency, etc is not what the Prof is
talking about and hence, perhaps, some of the confusion surrounding returns on an
index and the word «collectively».
I have two questions: 1) Is there any argument that can be made for going with a stock allocation (I do not mean for those going with a high - dividend stock strategy, I am
talking about those
invested in a broad U.S. stock
index) above 30 percent at today's valuations?
By
indexed funds, Robbins is
talking about funds that
invest in a batch of stocks trading on a particular
index such as the S & P 500.
I could've then taken the difference and
invested it in a low - cost
index fund, and after 30 years would've been able to afford that diving pool I was
talking about earlier.
I've
talked at length
about why
investing is a lazy man's game: buy
index funds, don't try to time the market, and watch your money grow.
In this module... Jared
talks about what an
index is, the different ways
index funds are weighted, active vs. passive
investing, and the pros and cons of using
index funds.
Since Vanguard isn't known to be a company that does a lot of over-the-top sales marketing, it doesn't shock me that they don't have a ton of content on the benefits of automatic
investing — but it's something they should consider, especially since the crux of everything we
talk about falls within their investment philosophy:
investing in
index funds, dollar cost averaging and keeping your fees low.
But when we're
talking about investing, you could
invest in a value
index fund.
My Disclaimer: I «eat my own cooking», and will
invest in some of the
index funds or individual stocks that I
talk about on this website.
Hi Denisa, you're pointing to an american fund with european stocks in it, while Marcel and MMM were
talking about investing as a european (i.e. you live in Europe and you want to buy cheap
index funds).
People yawn when Buffett
talks about indexing and «buy and hold», but I'm convinced that the simple logic of value
investing, long - term thinking, and patience can go a long way toward trying to produce great investment results over time.
The home page of my A Rich Life blog contains a section called «People Are
Talking» at which I set forth 105 comments from both big - name experts and ordinary investors
about the need to make the transition from the failed Buy - and - Hold model for understanding how stock
investing works to Valuation - Informed
Indexing, the
investing model of the future.
To make the change from Buy - and - Hold to Valuation - Informed
Indexing, we are going to need to change the way we
talk about investing.