White Coat Investor Podcast

WCI #256: Common Sense Investing with Rick Van Ness

Mar 31, 2022
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INSIGHT

Diversification Creates The Efficient Portfolio

  • Diversification reduces uncompensated company-specific risk and improves return per unit of risk.
  • The market (total-cap-weighted global equities) is the efficient diversified portfolio that sits on the efficient frontier.
ADVICE

Don't Try To Time Markets

  • Avoid trying to time the market because no one can predict it consistently.
  • Focus on long-term, persistent investing instead of short-term market timing attempts.
ADVICE

Prioritize Low Investment Costs

  • Keep investment costs low because small fee differences compound into large wealth differences.
  • Prioritize big fee savings over obsessing about negligible basis point differences between competent index funds.
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