Millennials & Investing: Building A Portfolio
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🗓️ 24 November 2015
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Should I start with big, stable companies or riskier growth stocks? What about dividend-paying stocks? And what’s the best time to sell? In part 2 of our special, we answer those questions and more. Plus, we share 2 stocks we would hold for the next 40 years. For a free copy of our best-selling e-book “The Motley Fool Guide to Investing for Beginners”, just go to www.fool.com/beginners
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday in November 24th. |
| 0:03.7 | Welcome to Mark Fullry. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio once again |
| 0:07.0 | from Motley Fool Rule Breakers in Supernova, |
| 0:08.9 | David Kretsman and Aaron Bush. |
| 0:10.8 | Gentlemen, good to be back. Day two of millennials and investing. We're going to talk about how |
| 0:17.8 | to fill out that portfolio. We're going to talk specific stocks, investing strategies, industries, and the question we always get, which is when |
| 0:26.6 | do I sell this stock? |
| 0:28.8 | And before we get to the email, again, we got so many great email from listeners. This was just fantastic. |
| 0:36.6 | Before we get to the email, I do want to mention, I just want to start with something I mentioned |
| 0:41.1 | from time to time on market for Forry which is the sleep factor. |
| 0:45.0 | That I think as an investor if you're starting out you want to be able to sleep at night. |
| 0:51.7 | And as we talked about yesterday, for a lot of people, |
| 0:54.4 | just having that S&P 500 Index Fund, they're fine. They've got their 401k plan. They're fine. |
| 0:59.4 | It's like, no, my money's safe. I just want to sleep at night I'm not interested in stocks but I think |
| 1:04.8 | if you are interested in stocks the sleep factor still applies doesn't it? |
| 1:09.3 | Definitely especially when you're starting out but at all stages of you're you know investing you know lifespan |
| 1:15.0 | you definitely want to sleep at night we always encourage sleeping sleep is healthy |
| 1:19.0 | sleep is good yes have you I mean I've been investing longer than you guys have I know I've had at least one stretch in my life where I was literally losing sleep over a stock that I owned I was awake in the middle of the night and I was like I got to sell this thing and it wasn't even a stock that was going down. |
| 1:35.8 | It was a small biotech. I had owned it for about six months. It was up 30 percent. |
| 1:41.8 | But for some reason it was just stuck in my brain I don't know what they do I |
| 1:44.9 | can't figure this business out have you ever had a stock where you're just like I |
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