298: What is the S&P 500? A Complete Review
Invest Like a Boss
Sam Marks Johnny FD Derek Spartz
4.8 • 518 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Kicking it back to basics for this episode, Sam and Derek do a complete review of the S&P 500. What is it, how did it began, how has it historically tracked, and how do you invest in it. The guys go over all these points and gameplan how they'll further invest in the index going further.
Discussed:
- ILAB 25: Paul Merriman on Investment Decisions That Will Change Your Financial Future
- S&P 500 Historical Returns
- Index Funds Mentioned:
$VTI Vanguard Total Index
$VOO Vanguard S&P 500 Index
$SPY SPDR S&P 500 Chart
$SWPPX Schwab S&P 500 Index
$FNILX Fidelity Zero Large Cap Index
Where we are:
- Johnny FD – Kyiv, Ukraine / IG @johnnyfdj
- Sam Marks - Barcelona, Spain / IG @sammarks12
- Derek – Los Angeles, USA / IG @DerekRadio
Sponsor:
- ILAB Patreon
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Time Stamp:
- 03:13 - What is the S&P 500?
- 14:20 - Largest Companies in the S&P
- 22:09 - S&P Sector Breakdown
- 45:30 - Dividends in the S&P
- 50:00 - Low Fee S&P Index Funds
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Invest Like a Boss podcast. I'm Sam Marks. I'm Derek Sparts. And I'm Johnny FD. We're self-made entrepreneurs who invest our own money and use modern technology to invest like a boss. Join us each week for exclusive interviews with our network of modern investors, business owners, and multimillionaires to discover new ways to invest our hard-earned cash. |
| 0:20.2 | Hey, boss is episode 298. |
| 0:22.6 | I just landed last night back in Barcelona for a month. |
| 0:25.9 | Going to catch the last bit of spring, and it is in the air. |
| 0:29.4 | Beautiful. |
| 0:30.0 | Derek, I think I'm finally matching your weather in Southern California again. |
| 0:34.3 | Yeah, it's perfect here. |
| 0:36.0 | We had a really rainy winter, but it's been like gorgeous lately. I actually saw your post on Instagram last night, I think, and I was like, wow, that actually looks great too. So we're in the two best weather places in the world, I think. Yeah, I totally agree. I mean, you know, whenever you get off like a plane in a nice place, it always feels like you're in like this romance period for a few days, But I swear every time I come to Barcelona, I'm like this, I will go on the record saying, like if you work from home and you have a budget of six to 10 grand a month, it's the best place in the world to live. I mean, for everything it offers and like, you know, you get yourself as dual membership at like Soho House and Sir Victor, you hang out at the pool and workspace all day. |
| 1:13.1 | Restaurants, you have Glovo delivering anything you could possibly need on a bicycle to your doorstep in minutes, perfect weather. |
| 1:19.7 | All the great things of California without. |
| 1:21.6 | I was just going to say you talked so much trash about California and you literally just explain like every tech bro's life in |
| 1:29.9 | LA. |
| 1:31.2 | I know, but look, you have, it's three times the price. |
| 1:34.8 | I don't know about that. |
| 1:36.0 | Barcelona isn't cheap. |
| 1:37.8 | The Spanish, Spanish used to call California New Spain. |
| 1:42.1 | Okay. |
| 1:42.5 | I can see that. |
| 1:43.9 | But actually Spain is, yeah, Spain's a third |
| 1:46.5 | the price, exact same weather, without the homeless people. Instead, we trade all the homeless |
| 1:51.8 | people for pickpocketers. So you take the pick. I mean, you take the good with the bad. I actually, |
| 1:57.1 | I thought, I thought Barcelona was beautiful. Maybe it's just because I don't speak Spanish or, you know, the few words I know. But I found the people in Barcelona to be kind of |
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