Investment: Ten things I learned about ETFs as a beginner
From the Handelsblatt archive: Our author deals with ETFs for the first time in his life - and finds that retirement planning is simpler in theory than in practice.
The writer had previously avoided thinking about their finances, instead focusing on saving and putting money into a checking account. It wasn't until they had to re-organize their private retirement provisions last year that they took a closer look at their situation. They had taken out a pension insurance policy based on equity funds in 2008, which they had been paying into for over 15 years, contributing more than 20,000 euros, but had only made a profit of 1,000 euros. The writer notes that even a savings account would have yielded more.
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