About this episode
This episode features a Q&A session addressing various listener inquiries about retirement accounts, investment strategies, and more.
This Q&A episode of Talking Real Money covers a wide range of listener questions, from proposed “youth retirement accounts” and 529 plans to the deceptive marketing tactics behind indexed annuity steak dinners. Don also shares details about his upcoming Civil War novel, The Line Uncrossed, releasing May 22. Other topics include Vanguard’s ETF stock split, the difference between quantitative investing and factor-based investing used by firms like Dimensional and Avantis, and a bizarre Appl...
People in this episode
Host: Don McDonald
Topics covered
- listener questions
- youth retirement accounts
- 529 plans
- indexed annuities
- ETF stock split
- quantitative investing
- factor-based investing
Keywords
- retirement accounts
- 529 plans
- indexed annuities
- ETF stock split
- quantitative investing
- factor-based investing
- Civil War novel
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Vanguard, Dimensional, Avantis
Books & works: The Line Uncrossed
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