Beware Of Index Fund Investing

I love Index funds, all the money we invest is literally into index funds alone. I think they are a great investment vehicle, but they are not a bullet proof investment. That’s what I want to go over in this video.

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1. To Big To Fail
- When you put money in the bank these days, no one worries about losing all their money if the bank goes bankrupt
- Although not so long ago people used to put money under beds because they didn’t trust banks
- But I want you to know that no business or nation is to big to fail ( that’s not true )

So the idea that your investment can never fail is not true:
- Here is a scenario, we get into a war and obviously your stocks fall by a lot
- We barely won the war and we printed out tons of money and increased spending
- The hyperinflation could send our currency into the toilet, which could cause a depression, which could cause job lost, which could cause a risk of collapse

2. No Risk Investment
- No investment is risk-free
- But the biggest risk with Index funds is not really that you’ll lose all your money (because that’s on the low end )
- But the biggest risk is the end of that example that I just gave you

Recovery:
- It could take a nation/economy decades to rebuild
- So imagine, you have your retirement money inside that account
- And now your account is worth a 10th of what it was, and it stays like that for 3 decades ( you may not live to see the recovery )

3. Set it and forget it (doesn’t exist )
- Tomorrow bonds can become more attractive than index funds
- Tomorrow it may make more sense to take your money and invest it in real estate
- Never think an investment is just going to be set and forget it

Example:
- 70 years old: invested in index funds 2M dollars with risk of a massive downturn ( better to put your money in bonds if they pay you 4-5% or whatever )
- 40 years old: and you just want to retire and you have 1M invested, you can buy 2 properties for 250k and live off the rents and use the other 500k to give you some extra income

The problem is: that people think too much about strategies that result in more money, but if you don’t need more money and you need money now to work less, then it makes no sense

4. Low Profits Mean More Investments
- Index funds don’t always make sense
- Historically they make 10% and depending on how far back you take it the historical data its more like 8%
- But the point is, you only get rich with time, with returns like that
- And for me, that’s fine because I’m not in a rush and I keep my cost of living low

Returns Could get worse over time as more people invest in them
- As more people dump money into the S&P and less competition rises
- And the Prices go up for investments, returns could go down
- So you have to be prepared to know that
My Plan:
- I stopped reinvesting the Dividend from my Stocks
- I stopped investing more money into it
- Going to take withdrawals annually
- And going to use that money to invest in real estate for cashflow ( people will always most likely need a place to live)

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