The Popularity of Low-Cost Investing
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🗓️ 2 July 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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The 1st half of 2018 is in the books! Motley Fool Asset Management’s Bill Barker analyzes the landscape for investors as we dip into the Fool Mailbag to discuss beginning investing, the pros and cons of Westrock, and the new flavors of Oreos. (Tangents include the latest health benefits of coffee, Bill’s predictions for Wimbledon, and what actually powers The Force.)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, July 2nd. Welcome to Market Foolry. I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio for Motley |
| 0:06.0 | Fool Asset Management, Bill Barker. Welcome to the second half of 2018. |
| 0:12.4 | Thank you. It's good to finally. of 2018. |
| 0:13.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:14.0 | It's good to finally be here. |
| 0:16.0 | How was the first half from an investing standpoint? |
| 0:19.0 | It seemed like it went okay. |
| 0:21.0 | Some hiccups here and there? |
| 0:23.4 | It depended on whether you were invested in tech or not. |
| 0:27.0 | I don't have the exact data in front of me about an article that the information tech sector was up 10% which was 99.X% of the total amount. |
| 0:38.6 | Like all of the returns that you got were in tech. |
| 0:43.8 | So if you had a pure tech portfolio, |
| 0:46.1 | which I imagine some listeners may be very heavily |
| 0:50.8 | overweight in information tech, they're probably pretty happy. |
| 0:54.6 | What about it the folks you work with, Motley Full Asset Management? |
| 0:58.5 | I'm assuming there's some information tech stocks in those funds? |
| 1:02.8 | Depends on the product, yeah. |
| 1:04.8 | I think that the Motley Fool Global Opportunities Fund, which is |
| 1:10.5 | overweight tech, had a pretty good first half of the year and the small and mid-caps did better |
| 1:17.2 | than the S&P 500 so so that was good for one of our other funds. |
| 1:24.2 | This is going to be an all mail bag episode for a couple of reasons. |
| 1:28.0 | One of which is it's a quiet week. |
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