25: Personal Finance: Socially-Responsible Investing and How Fees Kill your ROI

Development Best Practices

On today's episode we are pleased to welcome back Kamran Ayub, Pluralsight Author, speaker and consultant. Kamran and I continue our talk around Best Practices in Personal Finance with Part 3 of our 4 part series: Socially-Responsible Investing and How Fees Kill your ROI. If you haven't listened to our first two episodes on budgeting and attacking your debt and smart investing, I would recommend you do so before listening to this one.
1:20 Late-in-life investors
2:30 Offense and defense in money strategy
4:10 Moral choices in investing
6:20 Real Estate investments
7:10 Directly invest in businesses
8:25 Financial Advisors
9:10 Passively Index Investment vs Actively Managed Funds
10:30 Scenario - investing in each type of fund
12:10 Certified Financial Planners
13:00 Fund Managers
15:00 Expense ratios - what to look for
A Random Walk Down Wall Street book - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Random_Walk_Down_Wall_Street
Personal Finance Tools:
- Mint from Intuit - https://mint.intuit.com
- Personal Capital - https://www.personalcapital.com
- TillerHQ - https://www.tillerhq.com
- YNAB - You need a budget - https://www.youneedabudget.com
You can reach Kamran at @kamranayub on Twitter and see his Pluralsight courses at https://www.pluralsight.com/authors/kamran-ayub
Many thanks to Kamran for a great third episode in our four-part series. Make sure to check back in a few weeks for Part 4: Tools, Security and your Retirement Savings
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