Have had two colonoscopies now (just under age 40) due to my Crohn's. The second one was just to check to see how thing have been since my previous one was about 6 years earlier - was feeling fine going into the second. Doc didn't find anything concerning related to cancer, but found enough...
Anyone willing to admit something stupid they said that is flat-out embarrassing you wish you could take back? I'll go first:
At a conference for work talking with a new customer I described something as a huge suppository of information. In a subsequent sentence I used the correct term...
DIY to me is public land with no guide or local person accompanying. Although advice/direction from a local, or person who previously hunted the area, is allowed under my definition.
I think this is a great takeaway.
I admittedly have a bias because of my bad experience, and those of others I personally know. But the advisor I'd left a decade ago had come highly recommended to me by a family friend. Later when I told my friend I'd left the advisor, my friend said he was...
I think it's exactly as it seems and we're looking at it the same way. I'm accepting that potential volatility of the index itself and not trying to beat anything.
This financial advisor is through Edward Jones and I would think would be a fiduciary, but I personally think they're just a douche.
I don't know that indexing needs to be as complicated as some might think. An example of using VTSAX puts a person in 3,750 stocks which seems quite diversified.
Index fund on your own or you're doing yourself a massive disservice. That would be my only recommendation for anyone.
I've recently worked with a friend on reviewing the funds his financial advisor has him in... what a joke. It actually pisses me off. Front load fees, irresponsibly poor...
This reminds me of what girls in high school used to say about Britney Spears. Something along the lines of, "Ugh, she's so fake. Ew!" I don't care if she looks fake, hot is hot and I'm a man and I dig it. So Taylor Swift is juuuuuust fine in my book. Mannequin-looking and all, sign me up...