Drill down to a potential Irish allocation in your portfolio, and capital becomes even more limited... This is especially true if
you want individual stock holdings to be (somewhat) meaningful (say, 2 % +) within your overall portfolio.
For a $ 200,000 portfolio (perhaps the smallest you'd
want for
holding all 27
stocks in the AAII portfolio), five - year ongoing costs would then be: Mutual Funds $ 10,000 (yikes...) Index Funds $ 2,000 (much better) 27 Individual Stocks (including $ 20 for Kahneman's book): Annual turnover 35.8 % $ 681 Annual turnover 20.0 % $ 452 AAII Model portfolio $ 948 (116 $ 8 transactions 2007 - 2011) Investors with smaller portfolios will not show the same advantage for stock investments and may prefer index funds over mutual funds or s
stocks in the AAII portfolio), five - year ongoing costs would then be: Mutual Funds $ 10,000 (yikes...) Index Funds $ 2,000 (much better) 27
Individual Stocks (including $ 20 for Kahneman's book): Annual turnover 35.8 % $ 681 Annual turnover 20.0 % $ 452 AAII Model portfolio $ 948 (116 $ 8 transactions 2007 - 2011) Investors with smaller portfolios will not show the same advantage for stock investments and may prefer index funds over mutual funds or s
Stocks (including $ 20 for Kahneman's book): Annual turnover 35.8 % $ 681 Annual turnover 20.0 % $ 452 AAII Model portfolio $ 948 (116 $ 8 transactions 2007 - 2011) Investors with smaller portfolios will not show the same advantage for
stock investments and may prefer index funds over mutual funds or
stocksstocks.
If you already have a nice core of index ETFs and
want to diversify and grow with a few
individual holdings, I suggest you read up on «The Motley Fool's Top
Stock for 2012.»