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Do Not Let This Hobby Ruin Your Retirement.

The World’s Most Expensive Hobby (Part 1)

Key Points

  • Hobbies can provide lasting benefit by allowing individuals to refocus their efforts away from their careers towards alternative forms of enjoyment.
  • Nevertheless, active investing as a hobby might not be the best use of one’s free time.
  • Not only are the chances of adding value from this endeavor very slim, but also, the costs associated with investing unwisely can profoundly impact one’s long-term goals and aspirations.
  • As an example, most investors often overlook opportunity cost when making investment decisions even though this particular expense can be significant.

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Passive is the New Aggressive (Part 5)

Key Points

  • The fee differential between active and passive mutual funds may not appear to be significant at first sight.
  • However, over long periods, the impact of higher fees associated with active investing through mutual funds can be considerable, as compared to passive alternatives.
  • As such, over an investment lifetime of 45 years, excessive fees could wipe out a large percentage of your potential wealth.
  • Therefore, going with a passive approach has the potential to mitigate this particular concern.

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Passive is the New Aggressive (Part 3)

Key Points

  • There may be strong psychological reasons why financial firms can command such high fees.
  • Ultimately, these high fees can lead to the systematic transfer of wealth away from investors’ pockets.
  • The Efficient Market Hypothesis suggests that actively invested mutual funds face an impossible challenge in outperforming their passively invested counterparts.
  • Nevertheless, the fees for actively managed funds are much higher than those of passively managed funds.

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