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Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Cut Fund Costs

Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don McDonald

Business, Education, Investing, How To

4.2680 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Tom is joined by Paul Merriman again this week as Don is still traversing New Zealand in a camper-van. On today’s episode Tom and Paul look at the news regarding 2017’s mutual fund costs, talk about important phone calls, answer questions on real estate, retirement and index funds. As usual the emphasis is on long term, diversified, passive investments. Paul states that, on average, people overstate their returns, miscalculating them to their supposed advantage.Mutual fund costs drop in 2017.Know your costs, your fees and your expenses!The three phone calls that changed your life. Miscalculating your returns and the better than average rule. Why index funds are proven to give better returns than almost anything. The difficulties of purchasing real estate from a 401(k). The idea of turning assets into income in retirement. The life changing quality of equities! Paul Merriman — https://paulmerriman.com/ Merriman — http://www.merriman.com/401411 — http://www.401411.com/Vanguard — https://investor.vanguard.comRetiremeet North — http://www.retiremeet.com/MarketWatch — https://www.marketwatch.com/Stan the Annuity Man — http://www.stantheannuityman.com/Your Money and Your Brain — https://www.amazon.com/Your-Money-Brain-Science-Neuroeconomics/dp/0743276698Morningstar — http://www.morningstar.com/General Electric — https://www.ge.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:01.7

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0:05.1

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0:25.6

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0:29.6

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0:38.0

We're talking real money.

0:40.9

Welcome to Talking Real Money. I'm Tom Cock. Don McDonald is taking one last

0:46.6

Saturday off until he's going to have to work every Saturday from now until the end of time.

0:52.2

So Don's not here. I'm here and you're out there trying to figure out what to do with your money.

0:57.2

How to handle it, how to make more of it, how to avoid making mistakes.

1:00.8

So this is where the phone comes into play because you can call 855-935-t-5-t-3-5-talk-3-5-T-A-L-K.

1:13.5

That is 825-5-5.

1:16.1

For those of you are phone-challenged, as I am.

1:19.1

And I will do the best I can to answer all of your questions regarding money.

1:24.0

8-55-9-35-talk.

1:27.0

And maybe you heard the big news this week if you're a mutual fund investor,

1:32.0

which I am. I think mutual funds for most of us really make sense, rather than buying individual

1:37.7

securities, stocks or individual bonds. Mutual fund buys you a lot of those should do it at a

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