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What about bonds or precious metals - would those represent a better return than sticks?
Idk, there are some pretty cool sticks out there
The stick of truth!
Oh yeah! Give me a wild ass staff looking stick over a bar of gold any day.
No.
Bonds are safe and good for reducing risk if your time horizon (aka the amount of time until you expect to use the money) is short. They aren't good for long-term or chasing even moderate returns. For example, if you want to retire next year and don't want to delay things if the stock market happens to crash before then, bonds are an option. That's why retirement funds tend to shift more into bonds the closer they get to the target date, but it's a tradeoff of growth for a more reliable retirement date.
Precious metals are just plain bad. https://www.macrotrends.net/2608/gold-price-vs-stock-market-100-year-chart
The stock market even outperforms real estate in the long term. Afaik, generally speaking, there isn't an option out there that beats broad market ETFs. Optimal investing, statistically, is basically as simple as regularly dumping money into the same fund every year, no matter what. The earlier you start the better, since compounding returns can mean that 5 - 10 years makes a big difference once you hit retirement age.
It's imperfect, but this helps get the point across. It's an investing game based on real market data. https://buildyourstax.com/
Thanks for the info. I suspected metals were like storing cash under your mattress but didn't know much about bonds.
Basically unless we are part of the stock market, we're fucked. And if the stock investment turns bad, we're fucked.
Makes sense why so much wealth is now in property, especially in dense urban areas.
Kinda. Though, it's more optimistic than that. The beauty of broad market funds is that the entire stock market doesn't go to zero or crash forever like an individual company/industry might. Short of the country ceasing to exist, the market is virtually guaranteed to recover eventually. That's why if you regularly invest no matter what and don't try to time the ups and downs, you always come out on top in the long run. Just look at 2008 or covid. You may be down 50% this year, but 5 or 10 years later, odds are you'll be up a good amount. Long-term investing is easy that way. Gets more difficult if the market crashes right before you were planning to retire and now you have to work 5 extra years because your portfolio wasn't hedged. Hence the bonds and other low-risk investments.
You can't put all of your money into the market, becuase if the market crashes and you lose your job (because the market crashed), the last thing you want to do is sell your stocks when they're at their lowest point. So the general rule is to keep 3 to 6 months of expenses in a savings account. Then other large purchases like a house or car can be accounted for in savings/other less risky investments too.
Real estate is generally a bad investment for your average joe. Primary residence is good tho, if your living there for about 5+ years, but that's because it's an investment AND a thing you get use out of.
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