How are Assets Valued?

Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don McDonald

Education, Business, Investing, How To

4.5 • 811 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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How is the price of anything determined? We explore that issue after discovering a huge discrepency between the price of publicly traded real estate investment trusts (REITs) and non-traded REITs. How can one plunge in price while the other seems to be rising? Plus, a listener wants to know about investing overseas and moving money to safer investments? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesQuestions? Comments? Click!

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0:00.0	Reality Radio for a really great future.
0:08.0	We're talking real money.
0:10.3	One of the most important questions any investor can ask and one that has asked a great deal is what's it worth?
0:20.0	How much is it worth? We ask this when it comes to our house. What's it worth?
0:26.6	How much is it worth right now? Our investments? What's my stock worth? What's my mutual fund worth?
0:33.0	What's my bond worth? Even our cars? What's it worth? I'm selling it. What's it worth? What is anything worth?
0:40.9	That is a question that really does make people a little crazy and a lot gullible because it is such an
0:51.2	easy number in many cases to manipulate. And so, Tom, how do we know
0:58.9	what something is worth? It's whatever it says on the paper, right? Whatever it says on the
1:04.7	statement, that's what it's worth. Oh, you mean, so if I go to Zillow, my house is actually worth
1:10.6	$1.3 million, even though I can't get that for it right now.
1:14.2	I was thinking more of the statement you get from Madoff securities.
1:16.8	It says, no, your account's worth $1.7 million.
1:19.3	Oh.
1:20.0	Oh, well, it was.
1:21.6	Oh, yeah.
1:22.1	Because they were in the back room going, well, maybe.
1:25.6	That is an extreme example about problematic the what's its worth question can be.
1:31.9	Yeah.
1:32.5	And but okay, I got a piece of paper this week.
1:36.0	The only investment account I believe this year I've received where it showed the value had gone up.
1:42.1	Now this is in a.
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