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Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don McDonald

Education, Business, Investing, How To

4.5 • 811 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In today's episode: 0:33 Investing Truths Uncovered 1:38 The Fallacy of Active Management 2:55 Diversification and Market Cycles 5:23 Autopilot Investment Strategies 6:58 Trusting Long-Term Data 9:19 Historical Returns Explained 11:49 The Power of Index Funds 13:03 Listener Questions and Insights 19:03 Young Investors and Market Perceptions 19:59 Understanding Fund Expenses Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Reality Radio for a really great future.
0:08.0	We're talking real money.
0:10.3	For some reason, if you are a passive investor, many on Wall Street and in the financial
0:17.8	services industry, well, heck, they consider you lazy.
0:22.4	You just don't want to work that hard. You know, you, you should be out there working on your
0:28.4	portfolio all the time like they are because they live, eat, and breathe portfolio
0:33.1	management. Why do they do that? Well, it's their job. It's not your job. So what is the truth about
0:40.9	how you as an individual should invest? Should you just build a portfolio for your level of
0:47.3	risk need and tolerance and then kind of leave it the heck alone? Or should you constantly be going off in the latest hot direction,
0:56.6	chasing the latest thing, the latest fads trying to get in and out at the right times,
1:01.1	all that active, hardworking money management stuff?
1:05.9	Hello, everyone. I'm Don McDonald, one of the two hosts of the Talking Real Money.
1:10.3	Oh my gosh, is this fun podcast?
1:12.6	The other one, he's over there in a much colder place than I.
1:16.7	I'm in Florida where it's in the 80s today.
1:19.5	Tom's in the Seattle, Washington area.
1:21.2	It was in the teens this morning when I left the house.
1:23.7	Oh, that's just better.
1:24.4	I know.
1:24.9	It's wrong.
1:25.4	That's just better. I know. It's wrong. I should have just turned right around, went back
1:27.5	into bed and pulled the covers up. It would have been a lot better, I think. That's, you know,
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