As many investors shift to a self-directed investment portfolio, passive index investing is becoming more and more popular when compared to active management.  As a Canadian, passive investing is great for gaining international stock market exposure for a rock-bottom low Management Expense Ratio (MER).  Kornel Szrejber, from Build Wealth Canada, joins us on episode 20 of The Stratosphere Investing Podcast to discuss this topic in depth and create a list of actionable steps to take to avoid high fee management.

Dr. Crosby shares the 4 biggest behavioural mistakes that investors often make. Emotions play a huge part of investing and Daniel brings some interesting facts to the conversation.

Kevin Quigg of exponentialetfs.com joins us on SI 18 to discuss the conventional stock market index and its conventional market cap weighting. There are some inherent problems with this approach, so they created an index ETF to inverse the market cap of the S&P 500 (The 500 largest companies in America).

Travis Fonderson, of the Young Funds Program, joins us on the show to discuss how to start investing and how a long term vision will serve you well. Investing as a young person is a huge advantage due to time in the market. Travis teaches students through the Young Funds Program to get their portfolio off the ground. Braden and Travis both agree on how valuable a low-fee portfolio is over the long term.

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In January, I will be launching a video course for investing as a beginner. Stay tuned.

Today, Adil from @Bringtheinvesting discusses micro caps and investing wisdom from the likes of Charlie Munger. Investing in micro caps requires doing your own research as analysts will not be covering the company. Micro caps generally require listening to many hours of quarterly shareholder calls.

Today, Nicholas McCullum from SureDividend.com joins us to talk about the Dividend Aristocrats.   Simply put, dividend aristocrats are companies that have increased their dividend payout for 25 or more consecutive years.  Nick runs the Sure Investing podcast and the Sure Dividend website.  They are rules based investors picking fantastic businesses out of the dividend aristocrats index.  As a dividend investor myself, SI 15 was a lot of fun.  Enjoy.Stratosphere Investing: https://www.stratosphereinvesting.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stratosphereinvesting/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/braden-dennis-881a88b0/

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Today, Nicholas McCullum from SureDividend.com joins us to talk about the Dividend Aristocrats.   Simply put, dividend aristocrats are companies that have increased their dividend payout for 25 or more consecutive years.  Nick runs the Sure Investing podcast and the Sure Dividend website.  They are rules based investors picking fantastic businesses out of the dividend aristocrats index.  As a dividend investor myself, SI 15 was a lot of fun.  Enjoy.Stratosphere Investing: https://www.stratosphereinvesting.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stratosphereinvesting/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/braden-dennis-881a88b0/

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https://www.suredividend.com/

Today, Daniel from FutureMoneyTrends.com joins us to talk about his story of incredible success while helping people succeed in financial markets.  It is amazing to hear how much he enjoys what he does.  Most people fear losing their job... Daniel fears having to get one!

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Today, Ted Halpern and Kirsty Peev join us from Halpern Financial.  We discuss the crazy phenomenons that occur in equity markets and how to react to them with sound logic.  Kirsty points out that equity markets are the only place where the majority of people don't get excited about a sale!  

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