Investing is Boring

13/02/2020 30 min Episodio 8
Investing is Boring

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Welcome to the Making Margin podcast! Greenway’s team is here to discuss common financial mistakes and to help you navigate them. Meet the voices behind Making Margin:NickAllie  JeffDrewToday’s topic is why investing should be boring. We take a broad look at what we believe investing should look like and why.Discussion Topics:How we design a portfolio for our clientsHow we use decades of historical data to guide our investment processA 2016 study by S&P Dow Jones Indices showed that about 90 percent of active stock managers failed to beat their index targets over the previous one-year, five-year and 10-year periods; fees explain a significant part of that under performance.What exactly is an ETF, stock, bond, mutual fund, etc.?What’s the most important predictor of a relative investment return? Morningstar: https://www.morningstar.com/articles/347327/articleWhat other types of fees should people be looking for?A lot of people now have target dated funds in their 401k. Positives and negatives?Investing is like amateur tennis Take Away: If investing seems boring to you, you’re probably doing something right.