You are too kind. But you are right about @Cameron … he has initiated so many great posts e.g.
This thread is for passive investors / Bogleheads to discuss their portfolios. I couldn’t really find a good thread on this and unlike stock picking I don’t think it makes sense to have a load of separate threads as presumably the discussion will be broadly relevant.
If there is interest I’ll try and update semi-regularly with my positions and thoughts, but I’m keen for others to also share their portfolios, thoughts or questions. Here are few discussion points based on decisions I’ve had to th…
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I see a lot of focus on dividends among new investors on Freetrade. While dividends are great I wanted to make a thread covering why it makes no sense to focus on dividends when making investment decisions (unless the company’s dividend policy is negatively impacting growth/unsustainable). Hopefully this can be helpful point of reference.
This is referred to as Dividend Irrelevance
There is a Freetrade thread on a video by Ben Felix that very neatly explains this, if you don’t want to read a l…
Moreover @Robo makes a fabulous comment that should have got far far more likes than it has
I am in the green, a common denominator is that a lot of investors on here are full-on speculating, which is annoying and disappointing not for me but for you guys and your money !! This is going to be a long-ass post sorry.
I’m going to be rude here now, sorry, if you haven’t checked the company your speculating, because all investing is speculating, though some speculation is better than others. After all, you have to look at the data. So this leads me on to if you don’t understand or work in…
An addition that I want to make to your comment
There is always the chance they lose it all or sit on a negative holding for a very long time.
There is another drawback with sitting on negative holdings. It is opportunity cost. Jack Bogle said " buy the haystack ". That is a sure fire way of minimising that opportunity cost.
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