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Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Wrong Time for Risk?

Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don McDonald

Education, Business, Investing, How To

4.5811 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Don is still lounging around the North Sea (and editing this podcast). So, Tom in joined by Paul Merriman. The S&P 500 has soared 20% so far this year and now that "the market" (has been) "is" up, investors are feeling frisky. So, is it time to dive back into the equity pool. Paul discusses the number one reason to buy index funds and why you should buy when the market is down. He also talks about using target-date funds in conjunction with a small-cap value offering. Callers ask: What s...

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0:00.0

Reality Radio for a really great future.

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We're talking real money.

0:10.0

Welcome to Talking Real Money.

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Hi everyone. Tom Cock here, Don McDonald with the week off again.

0:16.0

And you out there trying to decide what do I do with my money?

0:19.0

There's all these things people are telling me

0:20.9

and ideas and easy ways to make a quick buck well we're here to try to fix that help you

0:28.2

with some advice that's a little more practical than making money quickly yeah you know that doesn't

0:33.9

really work out well does oftentimes the person selling you the idea but not so

0:38.1

much for you so here's how all this works we are here to answer your questions and calls those

0:43.0

always are the top priority and the telephone number for that is 855 935825 859358255

0:51.5

8255 and because don is out of town and he can't stop me I'm going to give away some

0:58.2

more of the Talking Real Money T-shirts. They're well-loved in many homes across western Washington and

1:05.6

further away. So call up, ask a question, get a shirt. They might even want to wear it when the sun is out as it is now.

1:13.6

But my question to you is when you hear things like this, how do you feel?

1:17.6

I know how I feel.

1:18.9

I feel scared.

1:19.9

But when people say things like this, risk appetite is off the charts.

1:26.3

Now, when I think of appetite, I think of like eating chocolate or something else I probably

1:31.4

shouldn't be doing.

1:32.6

Risk appetite is off the charts.

1:34.6

That's what an investment manager said yesterday.

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