...she gets up in years, take this $150-odd and use it to buy a mutual fund in a Roth retirement fund in her name. THAT will perform a lot better...
...4000X, well over 10% per year. Buying into an index fund or a mutual fund is a lot easier, a lot less risky, and requires a lot less study. Of...
I agree. I'm not sure AAPL will go up more than any other particular stock, but I've actually heard analysts referring to it as a "safe haven"....
LOL, you make a good point. Maybe stackers should be pushing this physical-fitness angle...
Yup, those self-styled investment geniuses, ain't they silly? Just look at gold and silver vs. the Dow and S&P. [ATTACH] Gold is gold, silver is...
In the mid-1980s, I had $4000 to invest. (Thanks, Mom and Dad.) Inflation-adjusted, that $4000 was equivalent in buying power to about $9500...
...serious about investment, put all the money you can spare into an index fund, or a good mutual fund. Or, at your age, educational opportunities. :)
...No way. If you really want a long-term investment, buy a mutual fund or a dividend stock. And don't panic-sell it the next time there's a 20%...
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...to talk about "usually". Ten years may seem like forever by today's cultural standards, but I've got a mutual fund I've been holding since 1983...
For that matter, I can't remember the last time I picked up a few loose shares of stock from the CoinStar return slot, or found a share of 1980...
...principal up or down. I'm really glad that I put money into a mutual fund 30 years ago instead of silver or gold -- the metals have gone up...
...I was also dumping money into a (fairly conservative) mutual fund for my 401(k). Each thousand of that is now worth about $1560. So, why am I...
...Oh, and don't forget that 20-40% buy/sell spread for retail. A bit like buying a very heavily front- and back-loaded mutual fund, in my opinion.
...money to put into an IRA in the mid-1980s. I put it all into a mutual fund with a 5% front-end load -- that's right, it lost 5% right off the...
I put $4K into a no-brainer, no-effort mutual fund in the early 1980s. With that money, I could've bought 3200 gallons of gas, or about 570 ounces...
...gallon of milk or two gallons of gas. Put that money into the mutual fund, and today it would buy a bit less than seven gallons of gas, or...
...would've gotten maybe $40 for it. That $40, put into the same mutual fund, would now be around $450. Instead, I've got the silver. How much...
Sure. Sometimes they'll go down over the course of a day, or even over a couple of years. But, on average, they gain steadily. I'm still a pretty...
...mid-1980s, with help from my parents, I put some money into a mutual fund. Even after a 5% "front-end load" fee, that investment has increased...
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