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What is an Expense Ratio and Why it’s Important

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An expense ratio affects everything from exchange traded funds (ETFs) to mutual funds. It’s important to keep expense ratios as low as possible, as a high expense ratio can cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars over the long term.

An Index investing strategy can quickly get derailed if you do not keep costs low. With a high expense ratio, your portfolio is no longer getting the return of the overall market, it’s getting less!

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What is Index Investing: A Beginner’s Guide

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Index investing is a great strategy for beginners. It takes the complexity out of stock picking because you are buying the overall stock (or bond) market, not individual stocks. It guarantees your returns will be similar to the market you are looking to mirror (i.e., the S&P 500).

Many expert investors, like Warren Buffett, agree with and promote index investing. As Buffett told CNBC, “Consistently buy an S&P 500 low-cost index fund… I think it’s the thing that makes the most sense practically all of the time.”

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How Much to Invest to Reach Your Goals

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If you have no idea how much to invest or save to reach your goals, don’t worry, you’re not alone.

Well, maybe worry a little, because if you don’t know how much you should be investing, chances are it’s not enough. The last thing you want is to wake up in 30 years and realize your another 30 years away from retiring!

Let’s have that wake up call be now, if necessary.

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Don’t Look at Your Investments! Focus on Long Term Investing.

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Long term investing is easy. However, there is a lot of distracting, short term investment advice floating around these days. One of the most popular cliches is to, “buy low, sell high.”

Sounds like a winning proposition, but there is a problem with that strategy. No one knows when the market (or a stock) is “low” and when the market (or a stock) is “high.” Better advice is to “buy now, sell much later.” In other words, focus on long term investing and ignore the day to day. This way, you will guarantee you are buying low (now) and selling high (in the much distant future).

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