IFB228: How to Avoid Dividend Traps + ESPP Plans
The Investing for Beginners Podcast - Your Path to Financial Freedom
Andrew Sather
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is a glass box media podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | The monopoly game is back at McDonald's and guess what? It's still twice as nice, because |
| 0:40.8 | with double peel you can peel on pack, then peel again on the McDonald's app to when |
| 0:45.0 | prizes like brand new mini-electrics, lovely McDonald's food, HBO and gaming laptops, |
| 0:50.6 | to be holiday vouchers, a thousand pounds in cash, plus tons of other incredible prizes. |
| 0:55.5 | 18 plus UK only selected items, subjects of serving times and availability, and 17th |
| 1:02.1 | October, game plan, prize claims, may require McDonald's app, seem at the rules.co.uk |
| 1:06.1 | Love this podcast because it crushes your dreams and getting rich quick. They actually |
| 1:12.4 | got me into reading stats for anything. You're tuned in to the Investing for Beginners |
| 1:17.2 | podcast. |
| 1:18.2 | All right folks, welcome to Investing for Beginners podcast. Tonight we have episode |
| 1:44.1 | 288 and we're going to answer three great listener questions we got recently. These |
| 1:49.1 | are wide ranging and so this is going to cover a little bit of different territory. So this |
| 1:53.1 | will be a fun conversation. So without any further ado, we'll go ahead and read our first |
| 1:58.1 | question. So I have Hey Andrew and Dave. I've listened to all your podcasts over the years |
| 2:03.1 | and came up with a question of curious, how would you respond to? On our previous episode, |
| 2:08.1 | when talking about employee stock purchase plans, ESPP, the general sentiment was something |
| 2:13.7 | along the lines of that's a free 510 or 15% return on your money. I'd probably cash out |
| 2:20.0 | immediately. Why subject yourself to potential market swings when you have a guarantee? However, |
| 2:25.5 | I work for a company that was recommended in Andrew's monthly e-letter. And those companies |
| 2:30.6 | are held by you slash others as they are seen as great future investments. What would you do if |
| 2:35.9 | you were able to get an ESPP discount on a company you also saw as a great future investment? |
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