EP 268-Why Index Funds? Instructor and Finance Guru Tom Bernard (CA)

About this episode

Tom Bernard discusses the benefits of index funds and shares his expertise on the S&P 500.

Send us Fan Mail Tom Bernard is in the financial field, married to a public school teacher, and teaches personal finance courses at the City College of San Francisco. His mission? Tom wants to help the average person understand wealth-building and how the S&P 500 actually works. Tom has been there, done that, and got the T-Shirt by trying to BEAT the market with individual stocks....but coming up short of market returns. Now, Tom has become an expert on the S&P and loves the low fees ...

People in this episode

Host: Dave Fleischer

Guest: Tom Bernard

Topics covered

• index funds
• personal finance
• wealth-building
• S&P 500
• market returns

Keywords

• index funds
• personal finance
• S&P 500
• wealth-building
• market returns

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: City College of San Francisco

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