Making money and saving money is hard. But if you have some money and some time then you can do some amazing things like compounding your money or what Albert Einstein referred to as the 8th wonder of the world. But compounding can work both ways. Carrying credit card debt at predatory rates month after month is reverse compounding. Not knowing you’ve become that little mouse running on a wheel at Petco is painful.
The average hedge fund, for example, charges 2% on your assets per year and then takes 20% of your profits. The average mutual fund charges 1.33% on assets, according to Morningstar. I think a fair shake for investors is a manager that charges 1% or lower. As you can see in my example that’s an easy way to make $175,000.
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E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy
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E.J. Smith is the Founder of YourSurvivalGuy.com, Managing Director at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd., a Managing Editor of Richardcyoung.com, and Editor-in-Chief of Youngresearch.com. E.J. graduated from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a B.S. in finance and investments. In 1995, E.J. began his investment career at Fidelity Investments in Boston before joining Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. in 1998.
E.J. has trained at Sig Sauer Academy in Epping, NH, where he completed course-work in Practical and Defensive Handgun, Conceal Carry Pistol, Shotguns, Precision Scope Rifle and Kidnapping Prevention.
E.J. plays a Yamaha Recording Custom drum set with Zilldjian cymbals. His first drum set was a 5-piece Slingerland with Zilldjians. He grew-up worshiping Neil Peart of the band Rush, and loves the song Tom Sawyer—the name of his family’s boat, a Grady-White Canyon 306. He grew up in Mattapoisett, MA, an idyllic small town on the water near Cape Cod. He spends time in Newport, RI and Bartlett, NH—both as far away from Wall Street as one could mentally get. The Newport office is on a quiet, tree lined street not far from the harbor and the log cabin in Bartlett, NH, the “Live Free or Die” state, sits on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest. He enjoys spending time in Key West and Paris.
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