A Poor Way To Invest For Income

Appalling sound quality. What did you record it on, a calculator?

Didn't mean to be too snarky.

If it would help with your investigations, a couple of pointers:

a) Talking heads style videos are largely static, so very efficient for video compression purposes.
b) Don't feel you have to compress the dickens out of the audio element during the recording or encoding process. Given point a, the benefit for streaming purposes is minimal. YouTube will just rerender audio in MP3 anyway, so don't stint the audio quality on what you upload.

Valid points about mechanical index investing, btw.

Where's the transcript for this video? Why is it not available at the same time?

Btw, this goes for nearly all videos on TMF, I'm afraid - transcripts should always be available at the same time as the video.

Found this interview very helpful and tend to agree with the concerns conclusions reached.

Would be interested, however, to hear a similar interview on the SPDV US Dividend Aristocrats ETF, which I hold in my SIPP as a low-cost means of getting some US income at reasonable cost (TER 0.35%).

The approach is still mechanical, of course, but I was persuaded on the basis of the additional filter that only includes high-yielding stocks which have increased their dividends for 20 consecutive years.

Does this go some way to alleviating Owen and Maynard's concerns? It's early days, so far, of course, but performance over the short-term has been encouraging, 15.26% gain since inception in October 2011.