Personal Wealth

What is the 4% rule? In what ways can it be useful to your retirement planning, and what are its potential flaws? All good questions for today’s Common Sense Investing video.

This is Episode 9 of The Rational Reminder Podcast, with Cameron Passmore, Benjamin Felix and special guest Carson Brown.

If you go to any online community related to money you will find people talking about their desire to learn about investing by researching and selecting individual stocks. They understand that this is risky, they will say, but they will only try it out with money that they can afford to lose.

You take your car into a garage for a major repair. You don’t bother to get an estimate beforehand and when the job is done, you don’t even look at the bill; you just pay it. Year after year, you repeat the same scenario.

This is Episode 8 of the Rational Reminder Podcast.

This is Episode 7 of the Rational Reminder Podcast

The question on everyone’s mind is: are you able to pick funds that will beat the market in the next year or two and make a profit? Short answer? No.

At PWL Capital, we believe in passive investing. Instead of actively trying to beat the market, we build portfolios mainly using exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that passively track market indexes.

In this episode of Your Money, Your Choices, Susan uses a concrete example of a new graduate paying off student and car loans to show how small differences in your debt repayment strategy can add up over time and save you interest costs and reduce the time it takes to pay off debts.

Episode 6 of the Rational Reminder podcast.