The Best Not Best?

Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don McDonald

Education, Investing, Business, How To

4.5 • 811 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Don and Tom unpack Morningstar’s latest “5 of the Best” investing methods, praising the simplicity of balanced and target-date funds but warning against high-fee versions. They emphasize that no portfolio fits everyone and push for low-cost index solutions. Listeners call in with 401k rollover questions and political discomfort around financial firms—sparking a candid, occasionally funny chat about ethics, emotions, and retirement realities. The episode wraps with a challenge to fix Social Se...

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0:00.0	Reality Radio for a really great future.
0:07.9	We're talking real money.
0:10.8	Hey, welcome back to the Talking Real Money Radio show and then eventually podcast.
0:16.4	I am one of your two hosts.
0:19.5	One of your two hosts for Talking Real Money for a very long time, like 15 years.
0:27.3	And we've done thousands of shows, and we appreciate you for helping propel us into consistently the Top 100 investing podcasts in the country.
0:37.8	Thank you.
0:38.5	We really appreciate that.
0:40.1	I'm Don over there as Tom, and you're there.
0:42.7	Thanks for being where you are.
0:44.8	We talk about money.
0:46.6	And we spend a lot of time during our week, every single day, really, reading a lot of
0:51.9	articles about investing and about managing money,
0:55.3	trying to find things that are different, unique, things that we can really wrap our heads
1:03.8	around and think are great and things that we want to rebut.
1:07.1	And Morningstar is a great source of educational.
1:11.2	It's all free.
1:12.2	You can just go right on there and read it.
1:13.9	Yeah.
1:14.7	It's good stuff generally, but again, not all the time.
1:21.0	And every year they do a five of the best ways to invest money.
1:26.9	And they just came out with one recently. Five of the best ways to invest money. And they just came out with one recently.
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