350- How Investing Works

InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast

Phil Town & Danielle Town

Investing, Business

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

It may not be fast or flashy, but the Rule #1 way of investing that Phil and Danielle have been following for more than 7 years works for a reason: those who follow the Rule #1 way actually understand the strategy of how to invest instead of gambling on getting lucky. While there are many ways to successfully invest, Phil and Danielle run through the positives and negatives of each in this first podcast episode of 2022. Tune in as they also walk through the history of the market, how it can help you understand what’s going on in the market today, and how you can use that knowledge to understand how to invest your money for the best. To learn more about how to successfully invest your money in the new year and beyond, download a copy of Phil’s Complete Guide to Investing for FREE here: https://bit.ly/3mVqxQs Topics discussed in this podcast: Interest Rates Buffett Investing Long Term Investing Bond Investing Additional resources discussed in this podcast: Shiller PE Ratio Net-Net strategy For show notes and more information visit www.investedpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. This is Phil Town and this is Daniel Town. Welcome to the new year. Welcome to our
0:12.3	350th podcast episode. Here we are at invested. So we are. What are we doing? Seven years into this now?
0:24.0	We just keep making it up as we go along and somehow it's working out and keeping me
0:31.6	interested. This is a big big onion. I'll tell you that we've been peeling that
0:36.1	Charlie. We need to talk to Charlie before he departs this world and ask him how he
0:42.3	could have possibly said what will those professors do the rest of the year
0:47.4	after we explain investing in one brief moment into it which by the way takes me to something
0:55.6	I think is worth discussing if you guys are following all this. For looking toward the new year
1:02.9	one of the things that kind of helps us look backwards a bit and have to say you know the S&P 500
1:09.3	in not everybody's in the US but the US stock market did some enormous number last year
1:15.9	you know wherever it started in January and it just did a enormous like 27 or 28 percent it was
1:21.9	just huge and the Dow did something like 18 percent also huge and I think ballpark I'm at like
1:33.3	I don't know 12 or something which I think is worth discussing actually. Cool. Yeah. I love
1:41.0	discussing good about that. Yeah. Right. Okay so so what you're saying is the market depending
1:48.1	on which index you look at did let's say between 18 25 percent and you're saying your portfolio
1:56.8	did like half that roughly. Yeah one one did a bit better than that right one did
2:05.7	and that's not the final one. What does one did mean? You mean one company? I got a couple of
2:10.0	portfolios. Okay. You know one of them did a little better. It was a little more fully invested.
2:15.3	So the first thing from this is that we've been playing defense here for a long time. I mean
2:21.3	we're getting very defensive for years now. Since starting this podcast 350 episodes ago. Yeah
2:28.4	that's really true. I distinctly remember you scare mongering me about I mean you meant it
2:34.6	it was like you're trying to scare mongering me but it was like watch out because the market's
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