Akane Otani
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1,333 appearances
33 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2017
last heard Mar 2023
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Or you could buy an ETF that tracks an entire stock index like the S&P 500.
That's very common.
And so that's very different from an approach where you're buying single stocks.
You know, you go out and buy one stock of Facebook, one share of Amazon.
Instead, you might buy a basket full of Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Alphabet altogether.
One downside to these ETFs is that unlike holding an individual stock, you don't have that flexibility necessarily on a day-to-day basis because what you're holding onto is an entire basket that tracks the broader market.
But on the other hand, a lot of financial advisors do like to recommend mutual funds and ETFs to novice investors because it diversifies their holdings because you're buying into something that has many things in it.
And so that means you're sort of playing a less risky game than putting all your eggs into one stock or two stocks.
I think a lot of investors don't think about this necessarily.
The bottom line is that when you sell a stock or any other financial asset and you make a profit, you are supposed to owe taxes on that profit.
And how much you owe depends on how long you held the stock for.
So the biggest distinction that the government makes is between short term capital gains and long term capital gains.
The distinction is short term capital gains are things that
you've held for one year or less.
And then long term capital gains are things that you've held for more than a year.
And typically, because of the way that the tax system works, if you sell something within a year, you are taxed at a higher rate than if you sell something over a longer period of time.
So that's definitely one thing that I think a lot of investors should be thinking about when they're considering buying a stock or getting into something for the first time.
It's not really the case that you can necessarily make a quick and easy profit because you do have tax considerations to think about.
Well, I'm biased, but I would say the Wall Street Journal is a fantastic place to start reading.
But of course, you know, there's a wealth of resources online, ranging from news sites to even the content that brokerages are now putting out with advice and even sort of glossaries and explainers on different things in the markets, whether you're wondering about capital gains taxes or stylistic differences in investing or
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