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Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Love of stocks is the root of many losses

Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don McDonald

Business, Education, Investing, How To

4.2680 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Love your spouse, country, or pets, just don't love your stocks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Reality Radio for a really great future.

0:07.9

We're talking real money.

0:10.6

This is Tomcock.

0:12.2

Yeah, I know you are in love with your wife or your significant other.

0:16.6

You may be in love with your football team.

0:20.3

But really, do you have to love your company so much the

0:23.8

company you work for that you put your you know your current income and your retirement and

0:30.4

everything and lump it all into one place what in the world am i talking about i'm talking about

0:35.3

you owning company stock especially in your 401k.

0:40.4

And why am I raising this?

0:42.6

Well, because another study is out showing that despite Enron, despite WorldCom,

0:48.5

despite Washington Mutual, you continue to believe in the firm you work for,

0:52.7

and you're piling untold amount of your retirement

0:56.9

into one single stock. Why? Because you trust it. You work there. You know the guy in the

1:04.3

cubicle next to you, or woman, pardon me. You know the CEO who is extremely smart, good looking,

1:09.5

never do anything wrong your company is run

1:11.6

conservatively that's my favorite one and you come in our office on a regular basis and say yeah i know

1:19.1

i listen to you guys all the time and i know about the company stock thing but my company's different

1:23.4

this is really a great firm and the numbers are astounding to me.

1:30.2

GE, a third of the 401k plan in GE stock, which, by the way, recently dropped 60% in one year.

1:37.0

A company called SCANA, 60% of the assets in company stock.

1:42.2

By the way, that stock fell 50% in one year. Pachar, local

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