The Way to Build Wealth » Passive Investor http://www.thewaytobuildwealth.org Ethan Bloch shares wealth building hacks, tips and wisdom discovered from the world's greatest minds. Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:25:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The 4-Fund + 1 Portfolio – Episode #38 http://www.thewaytobuildwealth.org/2009/01/the-4-fund-1-portfolio-episode-38/ http://www.thewaytobuildwealth.org/2009/01/the-4-fund-1-portfolio-episode-38/#comments Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:11:38 +0000 Ethan Bloch http://www.thewaytobuildwealth.org/?p=350

Ethan Bloch talks about a few different tweaks you can make to personalize your 4-fund portfolio.

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Links mentioned in today’s episode:

The 4-Fund Portfolio
The 4-Fund Portfolio: Allocation Guidelines
Buying Government Debt: How?

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Ethan Bloch highlights three criteria from his Index Fund checklist. The full checklist is linked up below in webpage and PDF form. Be sure to print this bad boy and place it in your wallet for fast and easy access.

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Wine drank on today’s episode:

Vista Hermosa – Red Wine [link N/A]

Resources that go along with today’s episode:

Index Fund Checklist
Index Fund Checklist – Wallet Size PDF

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A big thanks to Ariel Waldman and friends as well as Get Satisfaction for throwing and hosting CupcakeCamp2.

In today’s show Ethan Bloch talks about International Index Funds; their advantages and disadvantages, as well as a few common misconceptions.

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Resources mentioned in today’s episode:

International Index Funds
European Stock Index Funds
Pacific Stock Index Funds
Emerging Markets Stock Index Funds

Links mentioned in today’s episode:

CupcakeCamp

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Do Index Funds provide enough diversification? Is it a bad idea to only hold a few index funds as your entire investment portfolio? In today’s episode Ethan Bloch answers these questions.

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Links from today’s episode:

Stocks Are King. But Bonds Can Be Tasty Too! – Episode #19
Comment about Index Fund diversification

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Ethan Bloch has repeatedly said that stocks are the best investments for building wealth over the long run. Today however, he is discussing why you can’t completely disregard bonds; and he takes it one step further by explaining the best way to own them.

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Drink on today’s Thirsty Thursday:

Boylan Bottleworks Root Beer

Links from today’s episode:

Total Bond Market Index Funds – Reviewed

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This is a redo of an episode we didn’t release two weeks ago…

Someone wrote in and asked Ethan why he didn’t talk about ETFs in his episode on Index Funds. Here’s Ethan’s response.

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Wine drank on today’s episode:

Vin-Sanity Chardonnay 2004

Links from today’s episode:

Mutual Funds Suck – Episode #12

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In today’s episode Ethan Bloch talks about the three different online brokerages he believes have the best Index Fund offerings.

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Link’s mentioned in today’s episode:

Ultimate Index Fund Resource

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Written by the father of the worlds first Index Fund, The Little Book of Common Sense Investing is responsible for many of the views Ethan Bloch holds in regards to Index Funds and Mutual Funds.

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Book reviewed on today’s episode:

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing By John C. Bogel

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]]> http://www.thewaytobuildwealth.org/2008/11/book-review-the-little-book-of-common-sense-investing-by-john-c-bogel-episode-13/feed/ 2 Index Funds: Learn Them, Love Them, Own Them – Episode #10 http://www.thewaytobuildwealth.org/2008/11/index-funds-learn-them-love-them-own-them-episode-10/ http://www.thewaytobuildwealth.org/2008/11/index-funds-learn-them-love-them-own-them-episode-10/#comments Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:15:30 +0000 Ethan Bloch http://www.thewaytobuildwealth.org/?p=278

What are Index Funds and why should you care? Hit play for answers.

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Books mentioned on today’s episode:

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John Bogel
Stocks for the Long Run, 4th Edition by Jeremy Siegel
The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham

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“Most of us have no chance of being as good as the average in any pursuit that others practice for hours to hone their skills. Anyone, however can be as good as the average in the stock market with no practice at all.” — JeremySiegel, ‘Stocks for the Long Run’

The passive investor is the ideal investment approach for most of the people reading this. The passive investor will guarantee themselves average returns by investing in Index Funds and therefore will never do worse then the market; but also never do better.

Considering many retail investors do worse then the market average, this is a highly attractive approach. However, Index investing lacks the sexiness of buying individual stocks and due to this lack of sexiness many retail investors feel that in order to be considered ‘cool’ they should avoid the un-sexy Index funds and buy the sexy individual stocks; pure folly.

Sadly we’ve all had at least one friend, cousin, brother or sister brag about how they “day trade“, projecting a huge smile while saying this proudly; or a huge frown, if they’ve already experienced its pitfalls. That being said, when it comes to investing leave your high school mentality at the door and just worry about building wealth.

Advantages:

  • Spend minimal time managing your investments
  • Guarantee yourself average market returns
  • Never do worse then the market

Disadvantages:

  • Almost impossible to outperform the market


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