Jack Bogle: Owning Individual Stocks can be Dangerous

Jack Bogle talks about when it is appropriate to own individual stocks, stating that it should be about 5% of your total portfolio.

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[MapAtlass]

One of the wisest man in the history of investing.

[billyjohnson]

He changed the industry and made it very competitive.

[rhythmandacoustics]

The problem with MOST individuals is that they are buying things that they do not understand and are very prone to biases. This is why index funds were created to prevent over trading and occurring costs such as trading fees and selling at loss. Buying individual stocks is not wrong but people mostly buy irrationally and do not have the right knowledge and temperament to find the actual stocks and the price they should buy at. There have been two schools of thought that have done mostly well, index investing, and value investing. The others have done poorly such as momentum investing and short term value investing, and just buying on hearsay. The reason the former has higher returns is because the investments they have purchased is diligently picked and they do not trade often at all, and is held for a very long time, in years.

[fahimuel]

Mindful 5 and a quarter minutes. Thanks Jack Bogle for you insight into investing.

[diddypritzel]

Jack looks like hes already dead but talks like hes very aware and spritely! Quite surprising!

[vawt]

Well vanguard owned the most SVB stock and lost 750 million

[whodoes]

I will do anything for that voice man!!!!

[cruisecontrol]

If I'm investing in individual established companies that I understand for example: Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Walmart for 10 + years and I only stick to them because of their market dominance and the fact that they lead the major indexes like Dowjones, S&P500 and Nasdaq100 and they will still have a good future ahead of them. I see no issues. You would be better off investing in just the top 10 companies of the S&P500 as opposed to the entire index.

[jorgealmeyda]

Mr. Bogle did not forsee that today most of us investors buy shares in these funds through a website or app which forces us to see how much we have and what the share prices are at those particular times.

[kh]

This idea doesn’t work in some scenarios. Say you lived in Japan and worked all your life and then try to retire after 1991. You would open up that envelope and you’d be amazed at how your money shriveled up to nothing. And shrank for 20 years. Simalarly, what if you worked through all the 50s and 60s and then try to retire in the 70s and 80s among a lot of inflation and drawdowns. That wouldn’t of worked very well. The truth is trying to retire at 65 is called market timing. And it may not work very well. The market doesn’t always go up. And Bonds sometimes lose value. I think maybe we should try to buy low and sell high and when you have the money keep the money. Easier said than done. And one more idea, that index fund may actually see a downward slope that many people will panic one day.

[maxprivate]

Ah, what does he know?! Just kidding, he of course has godlike stock market knowledge.

[smeshnoymatvey]

Haha... Real money is in trading. Not investing. Haha said my YouTube furu

[TDubya]

The Ego of this man knows no bounds:
"Own everything and hold it forever"
He's got some cojones on him I'll give him that.

[rashidibrahem]

This is asuming that stock market always go up, this is dangerous thinking and we will find out in these coming months, hope the bubble keeps inflated

[Ben-yjwo]

Index funds are for investing stocks are for trading