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Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Just Change the Rules

Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don McDonald

Business, Investing, Education, How To

4.5811 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Don't like the way your active mutual fund compares to the competition? No problem. Just pick a better benchmark. It's perfectly legal and very effective at misdirecting investors. Don also considers the arguments that index funds are un-American. Yet, only a tiny percentage of active funds beat the indexes. A caller wonders if annuities are guaranteed and what to do with them? What's the best way to fund retirement accounts for young children? How could Wellington and Wellesley be recreated ...

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0:00.0

Reality Radio for a really great future.

0:08.1

We're talking real money.

0:10.3

Hi, I'm John McDonald, and welcome to Talking Real Money.

0:15.5

The show, the podcast, the all-purpose adventure, and managing money and making it a little easier to deal with

0:23.6

and hopefully making you more money in the process as opposed to all those other people

0:28.2

who are trying to make money off of your money by doing all kinds of strange and complicated things.

0:39.3

Before I get into my strange and complicated things. Before I get into my strange and complicated thing that I want to discuss with you,

0:43.6

call me.

0:45.8

It's easy and it's free and I'm here.

0:52.0

Yeah, it's August 20th. So I am actually here.

0:54.8

Yeah.

0:55.5

855-935-3-5-talk is the phone number.

0:59.0

855-935-8-255.

1:02.3

I am here, but Tom, Tom is wrapping up his vacation by the pool, by the lake, the Lake Shaluland vacation if you listen back to our shows

1:15.6

for a decade or more and listen to a show from august you'll hear the same refrain

1:24.1

tom is on vacation at Lake Chalanne.

1:28.7

100 degree heat, 12 degree water. Okay, a little warmer than 12. It'd be frozen at 12.

1:34.1

33 degree water. So call, call me. 855-935 talk. You're confused about your investments.

1:40.7

You want some ideas about what you should do going forward.

1:53.0

You have been pitched something and you want another opinion before you do it, or you've already done it and you want to know how the heck to fix it.

1:57.4

Give me a hauler, 855, 935-8255. And speaking of fixing things, this, see, here's the

2:06.8

problem with being semi-honest. I mean, like all people I've told my share of lies, but, but

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