Investing in ETFs is a great way to build a core portfolio, plus it can allow you to invest in sector where you might not have a circle of competence, but want to get exposoure.

In today’s episode, Andrew and Dave discuss some of those options plus how important the price you pay matters.

A few concepts covered in today’s episode:

* Where to research any ETF* What kinds of metrics or specifics to investigate* How to determine what companies are part of a ETF* Looking at the importance of secular trends* Dissecting the importance of the price you pay matters

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Announcer (00:02):

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Dave (00:32):

All right, folks, welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. Tonight is episode 181 tonight; Andrew and I will answer a great list of questions that we got recently. And we’re also going to talk a little bit about a few of the things that we had in our minds. So I’m going to go ahead and read the first question and then Andrew and I will do our little give and take. Here we go, dear, sir; my question has to do with a desire to increase my exposure to a broad range of the top tech stocks through ETFs. My current major ETFs are generally large, mid-sized caps and a generalist and international all with decent dividends in the era of new returns on cash; however, with a rearrangement of S and P missing sectors, the top mega tech stock growth. So I’m looking at large-cap growth, ETS with low costs, but wonder how one chooses, which such as SCHG versus VUG versus iShares, you of which I’ve seen all of which I’ve seemed to miss 20% gains as I’ve been weighing how to choose the better of the trio or others.

Dave (01:39):

The dividend yield seems marginal, but that’s okay. These will be invested for my heirs, not money for me.