Exploring Investment Options: ETFs, Mutual Funds, Bonds, Stocks, and More

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This chapter discusses the differences between ETFs and mutual funds, emphasizing taxation variances and the concept of actively managed funds. It also explores the dynamics of risk and reward in investing, compares owning individual bonds versus bond funds, introduces commodities as an investment option, explains options as a financial instrument, and provides advice to millennial investors on starting with stocks.

Robert Leonard talks with Stig Brodersen. Stig is Co-Founder and Co-Host of We Study Billionaires by The Investor’s Podcast Network, a best-selling author, and a former college professor. He has successfully grown We Study Billionaires to the #1 stock investing podcast in the world, while building a platform that is also a leading authority in stock investing.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN

00:00 - Intro

01:46 - How to pick a brokerage company to invest with.

06:23 - What stocks, ETFs, mutual funds, bonds, commodities, and options are.

10:17 - How to keep your emotions in check and set realistic expectations.

27:36 - How to actually buy and sell stocks and funds.

35:29 - Different investment strategies that can be implemented.

49:38 - How and why compounding is so important for millennial investors.

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