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The impact of fees on investments. Investor Series

26/12/2020

Sometimes things are getting gradually worse but you just don't notice! When I was in my late twenties I ruptured my Achilles tendon playing football and stopped playing sport. I was forced into being a couch potato. What I forgot to do was stop eating. Major error!

Alan Donegan: Investor Series. Fees on investments

1% can make all the difference! Compounded over time. Wow

I didn't notice the weight slowly piling on week by week. A year passed and I was obese! I hadn't noticed the small change each week until it was too late.

Fees are very similar. They are small enough that you don't really notice them at the time, they are hidden from you and they just gradually erode your wealth over time. You wake up a decade or two later and you aren't worth what you thought you would be! Fees are the hidden element in investing that makes everyone else wealthy apart from you! Let's tackle fees together

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Shit Happens

22/12/2020

Shit happens, things go wrong and problems keep coming at you! A successful life is not defined by a lack of problems. There is only one group of people in society that don’t have problems. And they are in the cemetery! Problems are one of the characteristics of being alive.

Katie and I going to get a Coronavirus test last week.

Therefore success is determined not by the elimination of problems but by how you react to them. This week I and Katie have had some problems. The Donegans are human after all. It is how we react that is important.

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Decoding the Vanguard Website: Investor Series

13/12/2020

You are ready to buy into an index fund and invest your hard earned cash! You log onto the website and you are all good to go but then you start to look at the different terms. You open it up and it is filled with jargon and indecipherable charts! What is NAV? OCF? Risk rating? Portfolio data? How do you make sense of all this!??

The language of finance can be complex when you're starting out! Katie and I are going to break it down and help you work out how to read the Vanguard website.

You panic, close the laptop and go back to watching Netflix! When Katie and I started to look at the Vanguard site to choose which fund we had several false starts and were nearly put off investing! Open up the Vanguard site and let's go through it line by line together...... (this is the UK site but most of the terms are the same globally)

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