Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "Ben Felix" channel.

  1. Come on, we let people buy single stocks. I think what you mean is we should limit how much fund managers charge
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  2. Hedge funds are allowed to load up on a lot more risk. University admins like to at least pretend their investments are safe.
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  3. The price of gold can go either way by 100% within a decade, the dollars you used to buy the phone you're holding don't.
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  4. Bond bubble? That never happened.
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  5. Too much leverage means the portfolio will inevitably hit zero at some point. Also, the average return over any given time period would be the same (BEFORE FEES). The general rule is you shouldn't borrow to buy things you don't need. You don't need stocks.
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  6. There's one allegedly serious dividend investor here on YouTube that claims dividend yield is not a measure of risk.
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  7. It would vary between countries. Canadians, for instance, should invest in US stocks because of minimal added risks, which skews the numbers. Russians should exhibit extreme home-country bias, because most of their "foreign" friends use the Moscow stock exchange anyway.
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  8. Depends on region
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