Boring Investments for maximum gains (IRA/401K)
Boring investing For the last several years, I loved being part of the action as I interact with my friends, colleagues, watched news about Tesla, GameStop, Bitcoin etc. They made big gains on some these investments and I dealt with FOMO like most of us. I made some interesting investments which provided me with huge investment returns and others pulled me down. In January of 2019 right after the passing John Bogle, founder of Vanguard, I started to to read up on his ideologies and investment philosophies. His book on Common sense investing intrigued me and I started to do some research on that topic. In summary here's what I found. 1. On an average most hedge funds under-performed the S&P 500 returns over the last 30 years Chances are you will have better returns long term if you simply invested on the S&P 500 index. We all like to chase the glamorous individual stocks, hedge funds, IPO's and other investment strategies and don't do boring stuff like just inve