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Chapter 1: What are ASX ETFs and why are they important?
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Welcome to the Australian Finance Podcast, a podcast for people who want to learn more about their personal finances and get the most from their money. This series is hosted by Kate Campbell from HowToMoney and Owen Raskovich from Rask Finance.
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Kate, welcome to the next episode of the Australian Finance Podcast. What are we talking about today?
Well, today I thought we should talk about how exchange-traded funds, or more commonly known as ETFs, have changed our personal investing worlds and what we're so keen on about them.
Okay. Yeah. Why we like them. Yeah. Sure. So, I feel like we've done an episode on this, but we're going to go into a bit more detail what to look for. We've had a few questions come through about ETFs and how to get started.
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Chapter 2: How do you buy an ETF in Australia?
They're not going to go, look how bad my back test was. They're always going to say, look how good it is. Why would they tell you it's bad? So this is something that was really instilled upon me when I was a funds management analyst. He said, different ETFs or different funds will do better at different times. And those generally play out over multiple years.
So you've got to compare like for like. So the sixth thing on the checklist is kind of the same thing as the risks you need to be aware of. So portfolio allocation, and this sounds a lot more fancy than what it is. It's effectively just asking yourself, how much do you have where? So a common example that you'll hear in financial circles is this thing called a 60-40 portfolio.
And what it is, is effectively 60% shares and 40% of your money in bonds. That's how simple it is, right? And that's what we typically, when you look at studies and finance people, what they say when they're talking about diversified portfolios performance over time, they talk about this balance strategy.
And so for you as an individual investor, basically you need to recognize what's more risky and what's less risky. So obviously things like shares would be more risky than things like bonds or cash. So cash ETFs, which are all available on the ASX.
But then right at the risky end as well, you might have those ones that you're talking about, like leveraged ETFs and things that go in the opposite direction. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so we, I think you've brought this up before on the podcast that to have your age in bonds is what some experts tell you to have.
Yeah. I heard that at a ASX investor conference.
Right. Okay. So that would be if you're 30 to have 30% of your money in bonds.
Yeah. It was a bonds salesperson saying it. So, you know, take it with a grain of salt.
Yeah. So when I went a hundred percent, always, always understand the incentives as Charlie Munger says. Show me the incentives and I'll show you the outcome.
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