A huge thanks for any feedback in advance. My time horizon is about 8 10 years (Im 62). Even the Vanguard social index fund may raise some concerns with people that have ethical concerns. Yes, the markets have been down, but we will come out of this mess and the economy will recover. Hi Jim, Any other advice for those in my age range? ! I cannot disregard how much I learned working that job and applied a lot of the knowledge I had gained in school to real world stuff! Im kinda retired, will be 60 next month, an investor for 45 years, two kids and a long marriage. Ive read through your entire blog and recently read your book (within 5 hours). Vanguards in the process of converting the investor shares to admiral shares (VTSAX). For more: https://jlcollinsnh.com/2015/03/26/stocks-part-xxviii-debt-the-unacceptable-burden/, 2. looking just at the numbers, Id pay the $5105 cash. Jim: "In the dark, bewildering, trap-infested jungle of misinformation and opaque riddles that is the world of investment, JL Collins is the fatherly wizard on the side of the path, offering a simple map, warm words of encouragement and the tools to forge your way through with confidence. And I think it's a great companion to my book--very different than my book--but they make great bookends. But do you think that with today's rapidly accelerating home prices that new buyers are apt to be especially unlucky with their timing? editorial policies. Do you accept sponsored posts on your website? possible and to always take the path of least resistance. I feel like I dont have time to be conservative. Thanks! I would love to connect to discuss more about how we could work and grow forward together. Benz: You do counsel people to de-risk their portfolios as they get closer to retirement or whatever kind of goal that they're working toward. But the truth is when you look at that research, 4% is very, very conservative. No one is more amazed than I. I have hit my FI # and plan to retire in a few years at age 47. For the most part Ive enjoyed my jobs and the only complaint was they took up so much freaking time. JL's latest book is How I Lost Money in Real Estate Before it Was Fashionable. My goal is $20K. The financial institutions encourage it. Ernest Hemingway spent much time there will covering the Spanish Civil War. If you're going to panic and sell, you don't want to follow my advice, you don't want to be in the market at all. I work for a 401k company and teach doctors/nurses/housekeepers at some big hospital systems about how money works. And .. as you said in your book, if you suddenly sell 5000 copies to Vanguard, I will expect my 15% cut. Looks like you are in Europe, so this post should help. Are they better off dribbling it in over time to protect themselves against the risk of plowing a bunch of money to work into the market at precisely the wrong time? Kate. If you get a chance, please put a five star review up on Amazon for me. Thanks. What is your take on a possible currency crisis? In a taxable account when you move from one investment company to another you have to sell what you currrently own and to buy the new investments. or 80/20. It doesnt go to print until the Spring, but I wanted to send you the Pdf of my pre print version. So, I've now forgotten your question, Jeff. I am looking for websites to publish sponsored articles with a link back to Hello Jl And with very rare exception, renting is far more powerful than homeownership and your lower monthly costs in that apartment over owning that house with all the expenses that come with it, invested in index funds over time will probably make you much wealthier. Thoughts on which to choose? Under 1% falls within the margin of error and you could equally say you can maybe lose extra 1% long term. What is certain, your expenses will be a bit higher as will your volatility. Pretty much in that order although Ive visited several more than once. I need to circle back on the IRA but is that something we should do first before all else? Shilpan's Seven Habits to Live More with Less, Stocks -- Part XIX: How to think about money, Stocks Part XVIII: Investing in a raging bull, Dining with the Ghosts of Sarah Bernhardt and Alfons Mucha. If not I thank you for taking the time to read this message all the same. Meanwhile with each dollar you put toward the debt the lower your interest rate burden. The Simple Path to Wealth. Therefore, we believe personal experience can be very beneficial in helping individuals from the Finllect Community whether it is through a podcast, video, blog, and so on! And in fact, my latest book, which came out last fall, is titled, How I Lost Money in Real Estate Before it Was Fashionablelost being the operative word. I read it in one sitting. My eldest and I watch the F-you video clips weekly if not daily F-you money has TOTALLY changed my life! I just wanted to let you know how much your advice helped me! Which of those things is more likely? Stocks Part XXI: Investing with Vanguard for Europeans, Case Study #7: What it looks like when everything financial goes wrong, 1st Annual Louis Rukeyser Memorial Market Prediction Contest 2013 results, and my forecast for 2014, Closing up for the Holidays, see you in 2014, Case Study 6: Helping an ill and elderly parent, Stocks -- Part XX: Early Retirement Withdrawal Strategies and Roth Conversion Ladders from a Mad Fientist, Death, Taxes, Estate Plans, Probate and Prob8, Case Study #5: Zero to 2.6 million in 25 years. Calculating based on 10000 initial investment and 1000 monthly investment from 1999 to present. If you dollar cost average, it's only going to work for you if for whatever period you choose to deploy that money, the market goes down. We also sell both admissions and sponsorship packages for our investment conferences and advertising on our websites and newsletters. If so, can you send me the pdfs or sample copies for submission? George. The simplest solution is usually the correct solution. I did this fullingly knowing that I couldnt predict how deep the market was going to sink and how long the low would last, but at least I got the 30% sale relative to a month before, right? Stocks -- Part VI: Portfolio ideas to build and keep your wealth, Stocks -- Part II: The Market Always Goes Up, Stocks -- Part V: Keeping it simple, considerations and tools, Stocks -- Part XXXV: Investing for Seven Generations, Annual Louis Rukeyser Memorial Market Prediction Contest, How I Lost Money in Real Estate before it was Fashionable, Fun with numbers: Historic Stock Market Returns, Lets talk about whats up with Bonds, and what ever else youd like to ask me, Case Study #17:Buying into the market right before a Bear, Case Study #16: Helping dad with an inheritance. We went into chapter 13 with 90 grand of debt. It takes virtually none of your time. The only time that you benefit is if in fact the market drops, whether it drops suddenly or just drifts lower over that year, then it will work in your advantage. What kind of discount can you offer?. Well, you are here now, and I have 220 notes of advice to process and implement. Thank you so much. I am grateful for your teaching and writing. Hi JL I have dialogue between Erik and Moe, but Im a bit terrified of posting it public. $100,000 now is nowhere near $100,000 forty years ago. Is there an interior designer in the house? Time Machine and the future returns for stocks, Kibanda: Mr. Anti-house buys his dream house. (Disclaimer: This recording is for informational purposes only and should not be considered investment advice. Were Mergen Digitals LLC, a Texas-based Digital Marketing Company. Everything You Should Have Been Taught About Investing in School, But Weren't, by Brian Feroldi, Quit Like a Millionaire: No Gimmicks, Luck, or Trust Fund Required, by Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung, Cashing Out: Win the Wealth Game by Walking Away, by Julien and Kiersten, Taking Stock: A Hospice Doctor's Advice on Financial Independence, Building Wealth, and Living a Regret-Free Life, by Jordan Grumet. Interesting question. New Years goal is to cook in the van even more and eat out less! Podcast? I was introduced to your blogs through Frugalwoods website and I have enjoyed reading all your info. As you spend time on my blog youll come across these. First thank you so much for sharing all your knowledge on building wealth. But I have a few questions left, not very important, but that have been bugging me: 1) What does NH at the end of your website means? Chautauqua 2014 preview, closing up for travel and other random cool things that caught my eye of late. And I think that's another stock that's been beaten down recently, and I imagine probably has some potential. So now I live knowing theres a better way, and not able to pursue it. Thank you for your response. Can you please share details? His advice to her not only evolved into that book, but he also keeps a blog and runs workshops and seminars. I just increased my pre-tax contribution to 10%. This is a tough one since you are gifting them my book. He was a hospice doctor and is talking about not just investing but how to live your life well and lessons from the dying and how to have perspective on not only saving and investing, which is important--as I said earlier, can make your life infinitely better--but also not letting it take over your life and recognizing the other kinds of wealth that are available to us that are not financial. Im now looking at investing in regular intervals. Once the debt is gone use the discipline to channel that money into your investments and watch your wealth grow just as you watched your debt fade. If you havent already and if you are so inclined, please take a moment to leave a 5-Star review on Amazon. I am a college professor and I want to give it to all my advisees. Although as Im just back from six weeks in Ecuador Im a bit late responding! Woman cant have a career for the value it brings to them? Worse, they have become even more difficult to read over the past few years. Thank you for all of your work Jim, it certainly has not fallen on deaf ears. Your book has a lot of rock solid advice, but this one threw me. You nailed it! JL, Im pretty new on this subject, however I have decided to invest in the VTSAX. Sincerely, Hi Jim, how are you? 1) Could a Dow Jones index, as opposed to S&P 500, be used to avoid investing in tobacco and alcohol companies? I have nobody in my life whos ever been in a position to teach me. Anyways my engineering school was cheaper than most ($46K) and it still got me the degree I wanted, Renewable Energy Engineering. I am Chinese book copyright agencyI am interested in your book could you tell me who is responsible for the transition right of your book? 1945, LU 1 CRETIA COLLINS of 5123 A st. But if it goes that far, that you cannot afford the goods which constitute a modest normal life, there might be a problem anyway. Please reach out if you would be interested. Should I increase my the pre-tax contributions (up to $16,500) to my employer-retirement account or would it be better contribute just up to the 3% match, then put more (after-tax) money into my larger IRA? JL, what is your take on this? Thanks, Maybe the real wage growth flows into products or new versions of products which no one really needs? There is a 5-star Amazon review from you somewhere in your comment if you are so inclined. They'll make a handful of people rich, and the rest suffer. A Guided Meditation for When the Stock Market Is Dropping, 7 Days in Heaven: or Why Slowing Down Will Get You There Sooner, Chautauqua 2019 - UK & Portugal - Tickets Now Available, Car Talk: An update on Steve and looking at Leafs. Global all cap index. But I didn't hold on to them very long. You can then invest this money in VGSLX https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=5123&FundIntExt=INT&funds_disable_redirect=true which is a REIT (real estate investment trust) fund. So, investing was an avocation rather than a vocation for me. Life feels easy now. Hi! Ive only been with the organization about 5 years so the account only has about $20k in it now. So, as Jack Bogle once said, performance comes and goes, but fees are forever. https://jlcollinsnh.com/2013/05/02/stocks-part-xvii-what-if-you-cant-buy-vtsax-or-even-vanguard/. Does this mean that I can only invest in them with a minimum of $10K ? Is this valid reasoning or am I making an error there? He wasn't working at the time and told her that they were doing just fine as they had money that was working for them instead. Dear Mr. Collins, So, you're never going to want to do any percentage withdrawal and just set it and forget about it--not only because you might run out of money, but even more importantly, and more likely, your money is going to grow far beyond that withdrawal rate. Its the mindset and actions we all take to get there that matter. But you may have looked at the blog more recently than I have. I hope this message finds you well. "The Trinity Study and Portfolio Success Rates," by Wade Pfau, Forbes, Jan. 16, 2018. The good news is, in this day and age, there is so much great information out there about how to approach the market correctly and successfully. I just wanted to thank you for your blog and book. I am new to your work and read your book this week. Sounds like a great mission. FinCon was quite the event. Thanks and I hope youre enjoying retirement! I was just discussing VBAIX in the comments on my most recent post: Vicki comes to Chautauqua: United Kingdom, Chautauqua - Ecuador 2017 open for reservations, Stocks -- Part XXX: jlcollinsnh vs. Vanguard, Reviews of The Simple Path to Wealth; gone for summer. Would also like to explore how we can license some of your contents on this blog. I look forward to hearing back from you via email. Good luck, and if you figure it out please report back. He was resigned to a future of scarcity before we had this conversation. Thanks so much for providing your wealth of knowledge to all of us! Thank you again for making finances approachable! For any of you interested, heres what I sent Mike: http://27goodthings.com/2013/07/01/james-collins/. So far no Italian publisher has expressed interest. Dear Mr. Collins, Case Study #3: Let's get Tom to Latin America! Hi, Jim. And then compared Vtsax chart to the S&P 500 the charts would look totally different. And it's a book, by the way, that will sit on my desk going forward just as a reference, because there are a lot of things that people say, What's the Federal Reserve, JL? And I kind of blunder around trying to explain that, because I've never really thought about it. His blog at jlcollinsnh is a "must read" for anyone interested in financial blogs, and is read by over 100,000 fans on a regular basis. I learned a ton, but most importantly I learned I was unhappy in that environment. If you think you might like to go, sign up for the mailing list here: I am the author of The Simple Path to Wealth. Regards, . Hi JL! Not only traveled by elephant, but herded rhinoceros by elephant back in Nepal. Surprise.. our bill was $6382. The Boglehead book is very USA centric but some amazingly simple threads that come out of it that are like universal laws of nature, like gravity, applies to us all wherever we live. And do you have a sense of how much more poorly these socially-conscious ETFs are likely to perform compared to VTSAX and VTIAX? In seeing your post above about wanting to have these on the thread for all readers to benefit from so if there are any 18 year olds reading this right now, read Simple Path to Wealth and DO IT, your 28 year old self will be proud you did. . As for the US market, it was already well established by the time indexing arrived in 1975. If you own the asset, I believe the 60/40 allocation theory holds up in most cases. 2) In brazil we dont have a total market index fund? There was the pretty sharp drop during COVID. I call myself Mr Why925 based on my blog whyninetofive.com . Id love to get your input. Investments How did you originally find your way here? My first real job was scrubbing out big metal ice cream cans. I just ordered your book through Amazon (also a Bogle Book and the Coffee House investor) for some light Xmas reading and to tangibly support those sensibly helping others on their financial path. Also, if we start an IRA for my wife and invest in VTSAX, that should be done through Vanguard directly, right? (https://calendly.com/na-tawakkol/15min) And maybe if you bought a house today in San Francisco, 20 years from now, for some reason San Francisco declines and becomes the next Detroit. OK, that wasnt fair. Benz: And what were the mistakes after that? Ive never had life or disability insurance. Please advise. I managed to choke out a wry laugh when he said Americans arent good at doing what theyre told. Hello again Jim! Maybe you should read through his posts or book. DEBT: Student Loans + A few credit cards along the way = BAD (guilt shame embarrassment etc). The key distinction is that one is taxable when withdrawn (the Taxable bucket) as compared to the Roth. Or if not, what sort of intervention do you think is needed to set them on the right path? Ive been following you for at least 6 months, subscribed to get your new posts on my personal emailI finally decided to reach out and went to reply and noticed the email address was donotreply! Luckily, 2 years later, she inherited enough money from a parent to destroy that debt completely and start a seed for our investing future. Haven't gotten into more trouble since either, other than just some more college DEBT. Thank you for stating this so simply. JL Collins: The whole blog came about as a way to achieve information for my daughter. We worked our fingers to the bone for the ceremony (also)George. That helps a lot. A 20-something kid making over 70 grand a year, with a 35k seed his grandparents left him. JL Collins Interviews Doc G on COVID-19. We are interested in publishing them in complex Chinese-language in Taiwan, is this book available? With a blown mind I started to read the Stock Series, and well, the mind was already blown. Im afraid insurance is out of my wheelhouse. gross. Dividends reinvested, buy never sell! ($24K)! That was by the realtor board (imagine that?!) And, of course, both of those stocks, they're not value stocks, shall we say? I finally found you because Chris foound Fritz- The Unholy Alliance is reunited! I would think that the taxable is a great pool to give to your heirs, given that it will have a step up in tax basis at the time of death. 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