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Imagine you’re eight years old and you receive 20 dollars from your
parents in exchange for mowing the lawn every weekend.
Over the course of a year, that amounts to $1040. Not bad for, let’s say
half an hour of work or so.
Now, let’s say that you do this for eight years in total. That means you
earn 8*$1040 = $8320.
Of course, you’re a smart little kid and you save the money. Your parents
tell you to save it on your savings account, which you do.
Let’s say that the bank gives you an interest of 1% in average for those
eight years.
That means that after year 1 you’ve got $1040*1,01 = $1050,4.
You got 10 dollars and 40 cents in return for leaving your money with the
bank for a year.
$1040+$1040 = $2080.
So this means year two yields you 31 dollars and a little more than 30
cents in savings.
Over the course of those eight years, your savings will look as follows
according to this table:
If you study it carefully, you’ll see that at the end of the eighth year
you’ll have made a profit of $1270,10 in interest alone.
Not bad for a 16 year old who only did half an hour of chores every
Saturday.
And while any high school kid surely would benefit a lot from this, the
truth is that…
To make so much money from your savings that you really don’t need to
work on anymore?
Of course not.
But did you also know that most banks have access to highly profitable
stocks and bonds that yield way bigger interest rates than 1%?
But their ‘financial advisors’ won’t tell you about these backdoor funds.
No, they’d be happy to advice to to their public funds that lets you make
7-8% or so interest rate…
…but that’s before you’ll have to pay the investor his cut which usually
amounts to 3%.
…this financial investor just picks stocks at random. He isn’t any better
than you at doing this.
Nobody can predict the future. So it’s really like throwing darts
blindfolded.
Sure they make it sound like they’re experts, because they show you their
results for the past 5 years or so.
15 years?
Or 20 years?
They can’t show you anything. Yet they can use all these fancy words.
Let’s take the same example and see how much you’d make if you saved the
same amount of money over eight years with a 5% interest rate:
These are the typical salesman tricks they use. They talk very fast, they
get engaged and they give you the sense of urgency.
They use difficult, strange and vague expressions that you really don’t
about much in your everyday life.
They hand out this lousy advice while investing themselves in other, more
profitable and popular investment vehicles.
One of these vehicles that they more often than not try to disguise from
you are some of the more profitable ones.
Put simply, an exchange traded fund is a fund that follows the market. If
the market goes up, the fund goes down. If the market goes up, the fund
goes up.
Well, look at how the prices have increased. That’s called inflation and
that happens because the market goes up in value.
And ‘the market’ is just a fancy name the financial investors use for the
stock exchanges.
Of course, there are different markets. Each country has its own market.
…how about investing in all over the world at the same time?
That way, your fund will always go a little up here and there, while it’s
going down in other places.
…since ‘following the market’ doesn’t mean much effort other than simply
imitating what it does…
…any ‘financial investor’ who runs such a fund doesn’t get paid much
either.
He doesn’t have to pick stocks at random and claim that ‘it’s how the
market evolves or whatever kind of excuse he’s using.’
And, since the end of the 1800’s, there have been two world wars, a cold
war, several other wars, the wall street crisis in 1928, the financial
crisis in 2008-2009 as well as numerous terror attacks and other
disasters…
…yet, the market value has, over time, just gone up. Prices today are
much higher than they were 100 years ago!
Now, if we take a look at that, the high school kid would have gotten
almost $25,000 in profits from the interest rates alone, if he’d just
invested in an exchange traded fund.
To sweeten the pot, the famous investor Warren Buffet once took a bet
with some financial investor experts back in 2008.
Warren Buffet claimed that an ETF would outperform their hedge funds and
that there was no way any fund could beat the index over time.
Of course, Warren Buffet’s ETF wiped the floor with those ‘expert picks’.
But, if things aren’t really that sure regarding ETFs, why would you
still pick them?
Because there are so many people who already have invested their money
with ETFs.
If the whole world invested in one single fund, then there would be
nowhere for the money in the fund to grow.
Everyone was invested in it, so it couldn’t grow.
This is what has happened to ETFs…
…but now, people are becoming more and more aware of it.
Keep in mind, for the most part, all you need in order to become a pundit
on television or on the Internet is a big mouth, nice clothes and to use
difficult words.
So, whether you want to help your little boy or gal making some money
while they grow up…
Or maybe you want to put aside money for your own retirement?
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