Q&A No. 3 Saving for Retirement: Buying stocks is easier than buying clothes
Channel: Investing made easy
Date: 11/08/2017

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Often it is said, novices should leave the stock investing to the professionals. This is also the question of Michael Stadler, Osteopathy Central, whom I help with his retirement savings.

People who advise novices frequently forget a very important fact: The professional investor cannot increase the return on the market. He can only take away a bit for himself.

Because all stocks are publicly traded, the private investor gets exactly the same conditions as the professional, i.e. the same price for the same stock at the same time. This is regulated by law. If it is otherwise, someone is making themselves punishable.

On average, therefore, professionals achieve a smaller return than private investors because they still have to deduct their costs from the return.

Fortunately, the opinion of all professionals is public: it is reflected in the current stock price. So the private investor can comfortably buy shares of large companies, because at the same time many professionals are doing the same.

If you invest in large stocks over a long period of time, you are on average better than the professional because you save on his or her wages.

The procedure for the purchase of shares is simple. Because stocks are traded on a completely transparent and public market, the stock exchange.

It's not like clothes which you can buy in other places at cheaper prices. A certain stock costs the same for everyone, anywhere. This is true for large corporations - even worldwide.

That is why stock-picking is simpler than buying clothes, because garments can become cheaper at another place at the same exact time.

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