The Investing for Beginners Podcast - Your Path to Financial Freedom

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Welcome to the Investing for Beginners Podcast. In today’s show we discuss a few diferent topics:

* How to invest in 40s, with an aggressive mindset* Asset allocation and Bonds* How Roth IRAs work and options for early withdrawals* Having dry powder for special circumstances

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Announcer (00:02):

I love this podcast because it crushes your dreams and getting rich quick. They actually got me into reading stats for anything you’re tuned in to the Investing for Beginners podcast led by Andrew Sather and Dave Ahern. Step-By-Step premium investing guide for beginners. Your path to financial freedom starts now.

Dave (00:32):

All right, folks, we’ll welcome you to the Investing for Beginners podcast. This is episode 183 tonight. Andrew and I are going to read some great lists for questions we got from our guests. And we’re going to go ahead and do our little give and take. So I’m going to turn it over to my friend, Andrew. And he’s going to go ahead and read the first question.

Andrew (00:50):

Thanks, Dave. Let’s get into them. We’ve got some good ones. So this one says, I was hoping you might address this on the podcast. I keep reading about how asset allocation is an investor’s most important decision, but nobody agrees to do it more specifically. My question is about bonds. I’ve read suggested allocations everywhere from 0% to 80%. How much should I dedicate to bonds? If it helps, I’m for the two and have about 250,000 investments.

Dave (01:20):

Thanks, Matt. Well, that’s a great question, Matt. And yes. So you are correct. Nobody does agree with it on how to do it. There are as many opinions about this. As blog posts and people give opinions about this, there is a lot of detail and a lot of data out there on the range of things. Here are some of the thoughts, which is the way I look at it. You have to boil it down to your risk tolerance is really what it comes down to; bonds, by and large,

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Announcer (00:02):

I love this podcast because it crushes your dreams and getting rich quick. They actually got me into reading stats for anything you’re tuned in to the Investing for Beginners podcast led by Andrew Sather and Dave Ahern. A step-by-step premium investing guide for beginners. Your path to financial freedom starts now.

Dave (00:33):

All right, folks, we’ll welcome you to the Investing for Beginners podcast. Tonight, we have episode 182, Andrew and I will read three great lists of your questions, and we’ll go ahead and do our usual. Good. We’ll give a date. So I’ll go ahead and read the first question we have. Oh, by the way, happy new year to everyone. This will be coming out around the beginning of the new year, so I hope everybody had great holidays and enjoyed the new year. And I think we all will say hallelujah, that it’s 20, 21, and 2020 is behind us. So hopefully, everything will go great this year. Amen. All right, so let’s go ahead and read the first question. So I have Hey Andrew. What are the ups and downs of buying an OTC stock?

Andrew (01:18):

Alright, so OTC stock stands for over the counter stock. If you listened to our episode last week with Timothy Sykes, we talked about penny stocks. And so, a lot of OTC stocks can be penny stocks. They might; I’m not sure if all OTC stocks are penny stocks, but a lot of OTC stocks can be penny stocks, but not every penny stock is an OTC stock. So what’s a penny stock. What’s an OTC stock. So a penny stock is any stock that’s trading at $5 or less. And so you’ll see that on the ticker on a financial website,