My adult son wants our family to pool some money together for investing and he's researching individual stocks and sector ETFs while I think we should just put it in a broad market index fund, and we keep having these conversations where I feel like he thinks I'm not ambitious enough and he feels like I think he's being reckless.
More people experience this than they realize.
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“Where Are You with Index funds vs. active investing?”
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