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Retirement Answer Man

Classic Episodes: What’s Wrong with Index-Based Investments?

Retirement Answer Man

Roger Whitney, CFP®, CIMA®, RMA, CPWA®

Education, Investmentmanagement, Saving, Self-improvement, Careerplanning, Retirement, Business, Lifeplanning, Investing, Retirementplanning, Financialplanning, Retirementpodcast

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Do you use index-based investments? There is a trend towards passive investing as people are stepping away from high fee managed funds. There are many positives in passive, index-based investments, but there are some downsides too. In this classic...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Retirement Answerman Show.

0:07.0

My name is Roger Whitney.

0:12.0

My name is Roger Whitney.

0:14.0

So glad that you are here with me.

0:16.0

This is the show dedicated to helping you not just survive retirement,

0:21.0

but to Rock Retirement. And you know the way that you do that, don't you?

0:25.9

It's by focusing on the right things, that can be hard, and taking lots of intentional actions to create a great life.

0:39.1

And so that's what we're going to talk about each week.

0:41.2

Now this month on the... in the retirement answer man show or on the show

0:45.6

we are in a hard at work mode so let's go talk about that with the most amazing

0:57.0

coworker ever go talk about that with the most amazing co-worker ever Nicole Rockstar Mills. All right it is the day before Nicole's favorite day of the year, which is?

1:06.0

Yes!

1:07.0

What are we dressing up as tomorrow, Nicole?

1:11.0

The kids want to do the Guardians of the Galaxy this year.

1:15.0

So when we're recording this it's still far enough out that that might change

1:20.0

but as of now the plan is to do Guardians of the Galaxy.

1:24.0

And I was specifically instructed by Nicole not to mention that I dress up as a whippy cushion

1:30.0

or use a fart machine because that is

1:32.8

guess not appropriate so I will not mention fart machine

1:36.5

or whoopi cushion on the show

1:39.6

and this is our last

1:40.8

you know what's funny about the fart machine though?

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