There is a great boom in ETF Investing and many of the blogs and advisors are pushing Index Investing. What's not to like, for a small fee you get total or at least great diversification. Cover the US, International and Emerging markets with 3 to 5 ETF's. Some of the International ETF's have up to 7500 stocks! Wow!
I'm not one of the converted. I've selected my portfolio of what I consider good\great dividend growth stocks. Bought them over the years, received a growing dividend and have not had to pay even a LOW fee. Why would I want to hold 100, 500, 2000, or 7000 stocks, most of which I know nothing about and wouldn't buy if I did. Why would I want to just follow market returns, my goal was to generate a growing income from my investments. When I looked into many of the etf's there was even a Return of Capital listed as part of the distribution... giving me back my own money?
Do you have any etf's?
I'm not one of the converted. I've selected my portfolio of what I consider good\great dividend growth stocks. Bought them over the years, received a growing dividend and have not had to pay even a LOW fee. Why would I want to hold 100, 500, 2000, or 7000 stocks, most of which I know nothing about and wouldn't buy if I did. Why would I want to just follow market returns, my goal was to generate a growing income from my investments. When I looked into many of the etf's there was even a Return of Capital listed as part of the distribution... giving me back my own money?
Do you have any etf's?