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A 401(k) Is a Great Resource for Retirement, but It's Overrated

The Motley Fool

You'll typically get to choose between market cap-based funds (large, mid, or small), your company's stock (if it's a public company), a handful of bond options, and target-date funds assembled based on your projected retirement year. For many people, those options are good enough; for others, not so much.

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

The Big Picture

I remember telling myself, why would anyone invest in mutual funds when you can buy an ETF instead? And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly.

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Celebrating Shakespeare; Talking About Investing

The Motley Fool

Andy Cross: David, ETFs, mutual funds, they operate by very strict rules on how they allocate their capital. In this case, for actively managed funds that are rebalancing every quarter, which as you mentioned, at the end of the quarter, beginning next quarter, they do selling and buying to match up the stocks and the positions.

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Transcript: Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton

The Big Picture

RITHOLTZ: So were you — in the early days, it was mutual funds it was SMAs, what were you guys doing? That new name of the company became Franklin Templeton. So it was Franklin, along with mutual fund pioneer Sir John Templeton. You have half the number of public companies that you had in 2000.

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Transcript: Natalie Wolfsen, Orion CEO

The Big Picture

And then I fell in love with technology and product development, moved from there to strategy, then moved from there to investment product development, worked on Schwab’s first ETF offerings, their equity mutual funds, fixed income mutual funds. I was a public company, CEO, I enjoyed working with investors.

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Transcript: Joe Lonsdale, 8VC

The Big Picture

00:13:04 [Speaker Changed] So the most of what APAR focuses on our private, our public markets, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs. So we built a bunch of software for them to run all their budgeting and their transparency and their processes and asset management and it’s a just build a big gov tech company.

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Storytelling With Morgan Housel, Randi Zuckerberg, and David Gardner

The Motley Fool

In this podcast, Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner is joined by superstar guests Randi Zuckerberg and Morgan Housel as they each share three stories -- one to educate, one to amuse, and one to enrich. The first will educate, the second will amuse, we hope, and the third will enrich. But thank you each for our educate section.

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