Investing: Ten things I've 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 describes their past financial strategy of saving and not investing. They had a retirement insurance policy based on equity funds, which they took out in 2008 with a friend, and into which they had paid over 20,000 Euros. After 15 years, they found that their policy was worth only 1,000 Euros more. The writer notes that this was despite a generally good performance by the stock markets during that time.
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