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3 Ways to Approach Investing When You're a Freelancer or Gig Worker

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Stick to passive investments There are two basic types of investing: Active: Choosing individual investments yourself. Active investors usually pick stocks in an attempt to beat the market. For example, many investment funds will invest your money across a large number of stocks. stock exchanges.

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Billionaire Bond King Bill Gross Says This 10% Ultra-High-Yield Dividend Stock Is "Best of the Bunch" For Pipeline Master Limited Partnerships

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While he is no longer part of PIMCO, Gross is still an active investor. The investors then pay their portion of the company's profits at their individual tax rate. This is a big selling point for investors, as they can deduct certain items to offset capital gains taxes.

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Investing $100 Per Month in This ETF Could Make You a Multimillionaire

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Rather, it's the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEMKT: SPY) -- an exchange-traded fund meant to merely mirror the performance of the stock market's primary benchmark index, the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC). To relatively new investors the suggestion seems outrageous.

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Reflecting on Financial Freedom

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On to Number 7, still here in the Foolish Moves category, smarter moves made by people who are already active investors. With investing I've usually been strict about being tax-efficient," Kim writes, "optimizing as much as possible with the majority of my investing taking place in retirement accounts. Thank you, Philip Durell.

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Transcript: Marta Norton

The Big Picture

In terms of kind of what this means for active and passive, I think there’s a lot to that. But as an active investor, I can say I’m a big fan of passive investing. bond market, the broad U.S. And you could look around and find Munis running a tax equivalent — NORTON: That’s right.

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Transcript: Eric Balchunas

The Big Picture

BALCHUNAS: A bear market is when you’re probably going to really find — you’re going to start to see real erosion because you’re going to have the assets come down from the market …. BALCHUNAS: … a couple trillion stuck in there because of taxes. RITHOLTZ: Super tax-efficient …. RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Yeah.

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Better Investment: Stocks or Real Estate?

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You can also in the act of doing that, experienced tax benefits and amortization of debt if it was used to finance the purchase. Matt Argersinger: All right, I guess I'll do the stock side. That can generate huge long-term returns that are really tax advantaged. Real estate is often less volatile than stocks.

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