Bond Basics 5: Individual Bonds or a Bond Fund? Interactive video!

Should you own individual bonds or a bond fund? Learn why the answer is easy in this episode.
Learn to confidently know where to put your money? This is lesson 5 of Bond Basics — a crash course about bond investing for beginners. Here are the lessons:

▼Bond Investing for Beginners is an interactive video series to teach investing for beginners (new in 2020):
✅ Bond Basics #1: What is a money market    • Bond Basics 1: What is a money market fund...  
✅ Bond Basics #2: What is a certificate of deposit?    • Bond Basics 2: What is a certificate of de...  
✅ Bond Basics #3: What are bonds?    • Bond Basics 3: What are bonds? Interactive...  
✅ Bond Basics #4: What is a bond ladder?    • Bond Basics 4: What is a bond ladder? Inte...  
✅ Bond Basics #5: Individual bonds or a bond fund?    • Bond Basics 5: Individual Bonds or a Bond ...  
✅ Bond Basics #6: Asset allocation for beginners    • Bond Basics 6: Asset allocation for beginn...  
✅ Bond Basics #7: Bonds can be low-risk investments.    • Bond Basics 7: Bonds can be low-risk inves...  
✅ Bond Basics #8: Use bonds for safety.    • Bond Basics 8: Use bonds for safety.  
✅ Bond Basics #9: How to diversify your portfolio of stocks?    • Bond Basics 9: How to diversify your portf...  

My book about bond investing for beginners is called Why Bother With Bonds.
Learn more about it here. Available at amazon.com https://financinglife.org/learn-how-t...

▼The Ten Rules of Common Sense Investing is a series to teach investing for beginners:
✅ Rule #1: Develop a workable plan    • Rule#1: Goal-based investment planning | R...  
✅ Rule #2: Start saving money early    • Rule#2: Start saving early | How to save m...  
✅ Rule #3: Control stock market risk exposure    • Rule#3: Control stock market risk exposure...  
✅ Rule #4: Diversify stocks    • Rule #4: Diversify stocks! | Investing for...  
✅ Rule #5: Never try to time the market    • Rule #5: Never try to time the market | In...  
✅ Rule #6: Use index funds when possible    • Rule #6: Use index funds when possible | I...  
✅ Rule #7: Keep costs low    • Rule #7: Keep costs low | Investing for be...  
✅ Rule #8: Minimize taxes    • Rule #8: Minimize taxes with IRAs, Roth IR...  
✅ Rule #9: Keep it simple    • Investing Rule #9: Keep it Simple  | Inves...  
✅ Rule #10: Stay the course    • Investing Rule #10: Stay the course  | Inv...  

▼Articles and Courses:
Smart Investing for Beginners — complete guide at https://financinglife.org/smart-inves...
 
Rule#1: Goal-based investment planning — transcript at https://financinglife.org/learn-how-t...

Free and small-fee courses at https://academy.financinglife.org

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