How should someone pick their first mutual fund or ETF to invest in?
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Date: December 17th, 2017 6:49 PM Author: Milky gunner
your strong default should be a boring well diversified index fund portfolio. the vanguard target retirement series of funds are a good start. if you have a large amount of money to invest, you can approximate the target allocations of the retirement funds with either etfs or mutual funds.
in general, if you're young, a reasonable starting portfolio would be 65% total us stock market, 35% total international stock market (eg vti and veu).
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Date: December 17th, 2017 6:52 PM Author: bateful know-it-all parlour prole
You pretend that you are buying the entire business. For example, would you be willing to pay $22.6 trillion to buy all S&P 500 firms in their entirety?
E.g. if you are buying a home as a rental property, the main things to consider are 1) price, 2) how much cash does it throw off, 3) how long will it generate those cash flows, and can they grow. You just think about a stock the same way.
IMO you should buy VBR, VFH
For individual stocks: BOFI, INBK, AER, ALLY
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Date: December 17th, 2017 7:03 PM Author: bateful know-it-all parlour prole
Yo, the earnings yield of the market is 4%. The earnings growth rate is 7-8%.
Most optimistic case, long term, is that the P/E stays constant. Then potentially you could make 7-8 percent a year. If the multiple goes down (as it should in a higher rate environment) you can get clobbered buying something like VTI or VOO.
I'll bump this thread in a year or two
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Date: December 17th, 2017 7:10 PM Author: bateful know-it-all parlour prole
No, you compare the growth rate with the price you pay. You also consider how long that growth can sustain itself for. You try to put a lower bound on the present value of the cash the firm throws off.
However, if you are just buying a huge blob like the S&P 500, the nitty gritty doesn't matter so much. The aggregate growth rate is fairly stable. It's almost obvious that an index fund investor is overpaying for that shitty 8% growth rate.
That's why economists are projecting millenials will earn 3-4% annual returns on their retirement portfolios.
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