3 Reasons You Should Own Individual Stocks Over ETFs
If you've ever stumbled into financial TikTok, you've likely come across all sorts of unsubstantiated investment advice (among the occasional informative video). These videos are usually conveniently preluded with "this is not financial advice" right before they give you some terrible investment advice.
Troves of influencers make the claim that there's no point investing in individual stocks when you can simply buy low-cost, exchange-traded funds (ETFs). While ETFs are certainly useful investment vehicles, I don't think they are compelling enough to abandon investing directly in stocks.
Here's three things the influencers won't tell you about investing in ETFs:
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