I have been under so much stress on what funds to invest.now i think i will settle with these. Glad you like the book and are passing it on to your kids. I actually prefer to see these comments on the blog so the rest of the community can see and enjoy them. Maybe you can address this feeling and how to deal with it in a blog post? While Im no expert in investment options for those outside the USA, people have found value in my stock series no matter where they live. I have never listened to any other audio books so many times. Yahoo and Google only seem to start at year 2000 and Vanguard only gives up to 10 year performance that I could find. I just wanted to say that Im a big fan of yours and your book should be taught in schools instead of shakespeare I would like your opinion on something. I agree with your calculations but the first question that has to be answered in non-economic. Investing has always been intimidating to me but after reading your book I feel like I can finally make some moves. Im curious if you use Vanguard or another online broker/site for your personal investing? Thanks for everything. You might post your specific questions here: I am planning to order more copies so that my friends and I can read your book in my book club early next year in 2021. In all your articles, you talk about the Vanguard index funds you recommend, but never mention why you prefer those over the corresponding ETF, even if they have the same expense ratio. He just opened his first Roth IRA. Your approach makes ingesting information seem much easier. Stocks Part XXIX: How to save money for college. But the truth is that houses more commonly don't rise in value much over inflation, and sometimes they struggle to do that. Good for Jims blogger fans to see how the Red Road merges with business, life and money. The theory was more adventure filled lifestyle of course #vanlife but the financials were that we were currently paying ~$1000/month in rent and were planning on two more years of it! To me this looks like both asset classes lost large, and I fail to see the protection that fixed assets are meant to provide. Stocks -- Part VII: Can everyone really retire a millionaire? Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, Nasdaq, and Morningstar Index (Market Barometer) quotes are real-time. While checking out on Amazon, Amazon recommended your book! I was notified of MMM when I was 18 (by an amazing friend of mine) and I sigh still thinking of where Id be now (28 years old) if I fully applied the three golden rules of: Spendings < Earnings (50% or more), investing surplus and avoiding DEBT. Sincerely, Im just looking to clarify one thing regard F-U money. is soothing and sounds like the kind of father I never had, giving me At the very beginning of our conversation, I mentioned that I found my way wandering in the wilderness basically. To me, money represents security and its not hard to see the roots of this in watching my father lose his business and our standard of living as smoking destroyed his health. Collins: Jeff, that is the post that has been the most popular in terms of views. Because if you're putting money in on a regular basis, as my daughter is, as an example, then when the market plunges, well, that's good for her, because she's getting more shares for those same dollars. ? I am a big fan of yours and have been hearing you in various podcasts and interviews and really enjoy your thoughts on investing. And when you say -definitely inspired by you and your blog- is this character supposed to be me? Your advice is outstanding. Thank you so much! This IRA is actively managed and I want to transfer it to Vangaurd and invest in the index funds. J L Collins The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life Paperback - June 18 2016 by J L Collins (Author), Mr. Money Mustache (Foreword) 8,587 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition $9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook $0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover The ER is a nice low .12% and current yield is 3.87% which is paid out quarterly. But that could come when you're 30, if you've achieved financial independence, as many people do, and you say, OK, I'm going to not work anymore for a while. Then you probably want to add some bonds to take the place of the cash flow that you used to have to smooth the ride. Most of us are paycheck to paycheck. You can imagine how I felt once I really began to understand compounding. Ptak: I wanted to shift and ask you about retirement income. My point being, you haven't protected yourself from that drop you fear at all. I was wondering if it is better to select an ETF from Vanguard vs. a Mutual fund that represents VTSAX. Nice to hear from you and glad to know how well things turned out. we decided NO WAY! Im interested to see what your thoughts on this are. Who knew that a four-year-old would want to go through The Wall Street Journal with you, but there you go. A Fortunate Son, to be sure, but hes not like most of us in America. So far at least she knows: that getting in debt for stuff to impress others is silly, going out-of-state for college(if no adequate scholarship is provided) for prestige is silly and when she starts working she should invest in VTSAX. It's the same reason casinos have all the alarms go off when somebody hits the jackpot. Please let me know if it is available in Korea. Collins's idea for this audiobook came out of a conversation with his daughter, wherein she expressed what a lot of us thinkshe just didn't have the energy or time to dive into financial philosophy. Without Your email address will not be published. Much appreciated. I have already maxed out my 2022 IRA contributions and have been investing my additional income with my brokerage account. I never felt overly confident in my thoughts because there are so many different opinions on the subject of personal finance. I got an internship my senior year in a cubicle at a power consulting firm. And on your Ecuador example, I would submit that a few thousand dollars a year should not swing the decision (not that you shouldnt do the calculation). Nice work. You're going to furnish it and most people when they buy a house are buying bigger space than what they were renting. I am sure I am going to go with vanguard. Im am a big fan of you from Israel. Mr. Collins Probably looking to sell our new van in near future and re invest in(another van + Alabama real estate? Hello Mr. Collins. Anyhow, do you think its OK to borrow for school tuition as its an investment and I dont want to cash in my investments. I know youre probably super busy and probably get asked to do interviews all the time. I'm not going to go near that again. So, I think that's probably the reaction. will be prepared to help our daughters with college so I bought your Maybe there will exist goods of that kind in 10 years, in 20 years and so forth, which will be only affordable for those, who took part in the general growth of the economy respectively the wage growth, and not for those who adjusted their income to inflation? Woman cant have a career for the value it brings to them? When we got off the phone she said under her breath, Thanks JL. Funny how you can blow through a years wages in about 6 months when youre hanging out in poolrooms and bars every night. He made Benzingas list The Best Investing Books for Beginners. Check out the link here https://www.benzinga.com/investing/best-investing-books-for-beginners/. Volunteer work through Junior Achievement in Los Angeles. Find out about Morningstars This will be much more broadly diversified than buying a rental property and has none of the management hassles. Benz: This is a great list. Glad you found your way here. You are my hero! Moonman T1 Transparent Acrylic Grey Metal Fountain Pen Piston F Nib Writing #sd, Wild Strawberry Pattern New Old Stock Details about Vintage Tuttle Press Beverage Napkins, 1.5 sq inch Piece of the Berlin Wall w/Acrylic Stand & COA 1 One. Gerry Anderson UFO Unstoppable Derren Nesbitt Autograph Card DN1 Craig Collins. Although as Im just back from six weeks in Ecuador Im a bit late responding! So far, the first iteration of our product has received a record 89% stickiness amongst 600 early testers. Hey JL. JL Collins is one of the best financial bloggers on the web. Sounds like they are offering a 20% discount if you pay cash: If you find anything useful here, feel free to share it with your classes. Unfortunately, we didnt have the benefit of your guidance before starting to save. Thank you for all of your work Jim, it certainly has not fallen on deaf ears. . . And, of course, it depends on the person who is reading it. VXUS is an international fund, without the US market. In the interest of helping improve it, there is a typo in the how I failed my daughter post in item 7. Hope you can help. So we put in everything else to get to that dollar amount. Do you have any experience with these? Jack Bogles books are a nice fit with mine. Let me start thinking about it. I've owned houses most of my adult life. All the best to you and them. Most of these are industries I dont feel comfortable supporting, even though I have been by owning so much VTSAX. I guess I make one, hence otherwise one would read more about this topic. Are you serious? Outside the comments of people who are clearly the ones you recommend not invest in the stock market, lay an upset reader saying dont buy this book because the same content is on his blog. Bookmark. However, we are an international family so I made my first seminar about Its all a ratio This was an insight based on a headline after the shock Brexit vote in the UK The Pound drops but the FTSE goes up. B-S. So far, these have been held in Ecuador, England, Greece and Portugal. Are there any charges for this. With a blown mind I started to read the Stock Series, and well, the mind was already blown. We met at the FinCon13 opening party happy hour and I said Id have to stop by and check out your blog! If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to let us know. As an aside, this is the first blog I came across when I started becoming financially conscious. I live in Portsmouth, NH and would be very interested in learning about any ongoing events. Given this, and also that I have about $30K to invest, do you think this is a good time to buy the VTSAX fund? And the other thing is that I own Facebook and Tesla by virtue of my VTSAX. Great series, absorbing it all, slowly. If you look at the Trinity study, a 4% withdrawal rate adjusted for inflation over 30 years is just one of the many scenarios that the study looked at. Due to the so called hedonistic method of calculating the inflation rate, the inflation rate does not reflect the improvement in quality of goods or the discovery of completely new products, which represent to some (probably not to small) part the growing standard of living of a society. I just purchased your book and read it all in one sitting it was a fascinating read that pulled together a lot of great thinking for me, and helped me to clarify my own path to FI. Get an IRA going planning on re reading that section again. "The Trinity Study and Portfolio Success Rates," by Wade Pfau, Forbes, Jan. 16, 2018. But as you go out three years, that percentage drops, and by the time you go out 30 years, there's less than 1%, which is statistically zero. This is a great discipline, but investing needs to happen to secure your financial future. I actually read the book, The Simple Path To Wealth, in April 2020. I have expectations of using my tax-deferred IRA to support living and to make charitable giving in retirement, fulfilling the RMD annually. Maybe a quick autograph inside would be super cool as well, Thanks How about the BlackRock Dow Jones fund? Awesome stuff! The investing world for the average investor is far, far, far better because of Jack Bogle and what he did. This is the link I was look at https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/VTSAX. In case you or other readers may have missed this feature, one nice thing about the TSP is that the expense ratios are (at least as of this post) constant across all of the the funds, including the lifecycle funds. Best of luck as always, and hope you find your illusive inner-self. We provide a platform for our authors to report on investments fairly, accurately, and from the investors point of view. Keep it up! After reading your website I opened an account with vanguard (IRA account). Jenat is here. Is there a way to buy this book in bulk? Painfully, I will have to consider the paid sales charges as costly mistakes. Are they better off dribbling it in over time to protect themselves against the risk of plowing a bunch of money to work into the market at precisely the wrong time? I have been following your stuff in the last two months. . And, of course, fees are one of the reasons that active management is at a disadvantage to index funds as well. Funny too,how something that used to be easy freewheeling fun,turns into a pressure filled job,when you do it to put food on the table.My game went to shit,losing to people I should have schooled,and I was lucky most nights to get away with just paying my bar tab. A left-over 401k has access to a BlackRock index fund that that seeks to match the performance of the Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index with an expense ratio of only 0.0146%. An associate of mine said, This is pretty interesting stuff. I shared it with him. And on my lunch hour one day, I walked down Michigan Avenue to a brokerage office that I'd seen the storefront and walked in, and I said, I'd like to talk to somebody about buying some stock. And they introduced me to the broker, and he sat down and asked me what, looking back on now, were actually pretty good questions. If it were me, Id simplify and put it in VTSAX. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-way-fewer-actively-managed-funds-beat-the-sp-than-we-thought-2017-04-24. Thanks, TFR, Please send it along if you like, but please understand it may be quite sometime before I am able to take a look.. I wish I had your e-mail address to send you a proper thank-you message for the work youve been doing lately. Man, I love your book! Departed this * life on Monday. But here's the kicker. The question refers to the so called safe rate of withdrawal: It is mostly supposed, that people adjust their withdrawals to inflation. Im 41, my fiance is 35, and we just bought a house. Therefor I ask your permission to publish a blog with most of Stock Series translated to Hebrew, keeping your full credit. You won't need "f- u" money as JL Collins calls it because you won't have to say that to anyone. Having money to travel in your 60s and 70s is useful. I first started investing in 1975, actually, and I had no idea what I was doing. Some are not applicable to where I am now, I mean location-wise as I am located in Australia (like for example we have Super, not sure but I guess its like a 401k in the US). For the most part Ive enjoyed my jobs and the only complaint was they took up so much freaking time. ..glad you made your way here and very glad somebody is teaching HS kids personal finance! I would definitely be interested to hear his perspective a year into the crisis. Mail clerk, ground man for a tree crew, landscaper, ad agency founder, account executive, ad space salesman,investment officer, entrepreneur, consultant, sales trainer, speaker, writer, radio talk show host, publisher and group publisher. That makes them unique, and they are also very old. Just take a look at the S&P500 i.t.o. I have dialogue between Erik and Moe, but Im a bit terrified of posting it public. DATE OF SEPARATION 26 September 2022 RETIREMENT, 1. Collins: I would just clarify, I don't say avoid homeownership. I haven't owned an individual stock probably since 2013, 2014, something like that. How I failed my daughter and a simple path to wealth by jlcollinsnh 220 Comments Literally since the day she was born people have been complimenting my daughter. I think in the end it was a cheaper route to go but I definitely did not need to tack on the extra $10K in loans, I could've worked, I shoulda woulda coulda. What youre missing is this post: https://jlcollinsnh.com/2013/05/02/stocks-part-xvii-what-if-you-cant-buy-vtsax-or-even-vanguard/ . Its simply a matter of time. Seriously though, I have never felt this liberated I grew up in poverty in England and have never felt secure financially you have taken away the horrible feeling of ending up back where I started. 1. Hi JL! Changed my accounts to Van Guard and am ready to follow your plan, but have some questions. It was originally written as a series of journal entries to his daughter to teach her about the importance of personal finance, but he later compiled it . Weekly newspaper from Crosbyton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising. Olympus, Amsterdam, Bruges, Beziers, Portugal (Lagos, Porto, Douro Valley). As Ive said before, I owned them for 28 years myself. Long time reader of your blog but never commented before. . That makes sense for people with long time horizons. Any suggestions for view points would be highly helpful. They come in 3 forms: fixed rates, tracking the national interest rate, and one similar to a TIPS. Hope you are your family are having a safe and healthy year so far! And particularly seeing as we're probably most likely to build a house, and that's a 12-month process, so am I about to commit to a very expensive indulgence and not even have access to it for the next 12 months only to find when it's time to move in its value has been cut in half, like in '07, '08? InvestED, hosted by hedge fund manager and New York Times best-selling author Phil Town and his daughter Danielle, is the perfect stock market education for beginners. He just seems to be an incredible guy in what he's accomplished. Blessings for your continued work and impact. Having said that, when I last hung up my last corporate job, I think my withdrawal rate was about 5% because my daughter was in college at the time, and I was comfortable with 5%, because looking at the Trinity study, 5% has an extraordinarily high success ratio. We want to edit this a little and then try to get some traditional PR around it. I think youd be a great fit for our affiliate program. Part 2 of the Stock Series discussion with JL Collins, author of The Simple Path to Wealth and the website JLCollinsNH; we discuss the Great Depression and t. Id kiss you on the lips, but our wives would probably be PISSED! So i would ask you Jim if i can translate your book to Portuguese and distribute via PDF. This is an interesting question. Owned once- Its kinda like smoking- I started case eyeryone else was doing it and it looked cool- but later you cant QUIT and you know its killing you. Lo can't save you. And again, they're a fund of funds, so some of those funds have higher expense ratios, higher costs than simply a basic broad-based index fund. Had I realized this when I was younger, I might well have done the same. Now that's all easy to say, and it's easy for people to understand in their head. Glad to hear it, but I hope you still love me when the markets take their next major dive. Thanks for your immediate reply. Society encourages it. I guess not. Not much more to say on those topics that is not in the book. Thanks so much! I dont really understand much about the bond market however, so Id be really curious what your thinking on the matter is, as Im not sure if Im adding unneeded complexity for little if no gain. If you are interested in this idea we would love to know a by January 23, 2109. To answer your question, if I were to do it--and again, I haven't researched these--but I am a big fan and very impressed with Elon Musk. Collins recalls a time when his daughter was eight years old and she asked him if they were poor after watching the news showing people standing in a bread line. Isnt it University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, not Champaign-Urbana? I was wondering if it would be ok for me to use the image of your book. I was once corrected, its a HOME! I then corrected, no , its a HOUSE. But it sounded to me like a good idea to archive the information. Case Study #4: Using the 4% rule and asset allocations. 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