Should I use the S & P 500 and Asset Allocation Model or Total Market Index?
Be Wealthy & Smart
Linda P. Jones
4.8 • 883 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Learn whether the S & P 500 and traditional asset allocation models or the Total Market Index is a better way to invest.
A listener asked if they should invest in the S & P 500, using traditional asset allocation models or invest in the Total Market Index?
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| 0:00.0 | Be wealthy and smart, episode 602. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm gonna live no rich life. |
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| 0:08.0 | Pull that best life. |
| 0:10.0 | So if y'all know what I mean, put your hands up and declare with me |
| 0:13.6 | Yeah, I'm full of faith I'm gonna live a good life I'm gonna live a good life |
| 0:21.1 | a beautiful and glorious life Step into a world of wealth and wealth and financial freedom without budgets, boredom or bosses on |
| 0:31.0 | Be wealthy and Smart. |
| 0:33.9 | And now here's your host, Linda P. Jones. |
| 0:38.1 | Welcome to Be Wealthy and Smart. |
| 0:39.6 | I'm Linda P. Jones, America's Wealth Mentor. |
| 0:41.9 | Empowering women and men worldwide to financial freedom. |
| 0:45.2 | On today's show, we're going to compare the S&P 500 ETF to the Total Market Index EDF. |
| 0:53.0 | Because recently I got a listener question |
| 0:56.0 | and they were wondering, |
| 0:57.0 | should I do traditional asset allocation |
| 1:00.0 | or should I stay in the total market index that I'm in. |
| 1:04.0 | So if you've been listening to the show for a while, you know that typically in asset allocation, |
| 1:09.3 | I talk about having some large caps, which generally is the S&P 500 the 500 largest companies in the US |
| 1:16.8 | along with a mid cap ETF a small cap ETF an.F. an international E.T.F. and perhaps emerging markets, real estate investment trusts, |
| 1:27.2 | and then we have our specialty sector E. T.S. as well. So I talk about traditional asset allocation in that way, being very specific about |
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