Indexes do well. You get the benefit of a pretty well managed fund but without the high costs. All those indexes add and remove stocks regularly which keeps their performance generrally marching upward.
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 7:02 AM Forrest Christian (List Account) < li...@packetflux.com> wrote: > Warren buffet won a million dollar bet based on very similar advice. > > Over the long term, funds which track a market index tend to do better > than pretty much any other type of fund. The specific index which won > Warren buffet his bet was the S&p 500, and there are several funds which > track this. I'm personally most interested in VOO, but I'm a fan of > Vanguard in general. > > I do have some shares in companies I believe in, but they're more long > term investments, and I really don't have much tied up in any one company. > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019, 10:30 PM John Osmon <jos...@rigozsaurus.com wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 01:24:04PM -0600, Jason McKemie wrote: >> > Anyone have suggestions on stocks to look at? I'm considering Tesla >> > because it is down right now, that could go either way on earnings >> report >> > tomorrow though. >> >> Dollar cost average into an ETF, and forget about it. >> >> Any other strategy is unlikely to beat that in the long run. >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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