Market or Rules?

Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don McDonald

Business, Education, Investing, How To

4.2 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In today's podcast episode: 0:45 Introduction to the Investment Debate 2:26 The Case for Total Market Index Funds 5:56 Performance Comparison: ETFs vs. Index Funds 7:46 Understanding Risk in Investment Choices 10:29 The Importance of Diversification 14:07 Global Investing: A Broader Perspective 15:07 Listener Questions: Asset Location Strategies 17:56 Bond Investments: Tips vs. ETFs 22:39 CD Ladders vs. Bond Funds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.0	Reality for a really great future.
0:38.0	We're talking real money.
0:40.7	One of the great investment debates rages on.
0:46.2	The debate, no, not between active and passive.
0:49.4	We'll do that one too.
0:50.3	No, the debate between plain vanilla indexes and, well, slightly modified
0:59.6	portfolios based on academic research, data, things like, you know, Vanguard's index funds
1:09.1	versus Avantus or dimensional funds where they tilt to small in value.
1:16.5	That debate continues to spread through the industry and some of the people talking about it.
1:23.9	Well, one of them is our good friend Paul Merriman, who Tom follows
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