Daily Money - Investing During a Stock Market Bubble

Elizabeth O'Brien is a senior writer at Money

Remember Pets.com? The company was a high-profile casualty of the dot-com bust in 2000, and its name has become a kind of shorthand for a stock bubble. So it should give us pause that Pets.com has crept back into the conversation these days. Why? Because investors are rewarding tech stocks like Tesla by pushing their share price beyond what their business fundamentals might warrant. To use my favorite stock lingo, valuations are frothy. The best way to take some of the fizz out of your portfolio is through diversification. In today’s edition, learn more about creating a balanced portfolio — and not letting FOMO (fear of missing out) get the best of you.

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Elizabeth

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This week in our Retire with Money Facebook group, a member in her mid-30s asked the group for suggestions of what to do with extra cash each month: “We have a solid emergency fund, retirement accounts are being funded at 13% per year of income. We have a $58K student loan, variable rate at 2.25% and a $48K car loan at fixed 3.5%. We have a mortgage also at 3.25%. Husband does not want to increase retirement savings.” She also noted that their parents were funding a 529 college savings account for her child(ren). Many members recommended that she pay down her big car loan, because it’s not great to carry a loan on a depreciating asset. Former Money editor Rachel Elson, who recently passed a rigorous exam to become a certified financial planner (!), recommended investing in a taxable brokerage account: “If you think of your cash as your emergency fund and your retirement accounts as 30-years-out money, think of a brokerage account as where you invest money you might want in 5-10 years - for a kitchen remodel, or a new car (without financing), etc. You'd need a long enough time frame to ride out market ups and downs, but it can be shorter than your retirement funds, and not locked up.”

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Elizabeth O'Brien is deputy editor at Money. She has covered retirement and health care for nearly a decade. A Brooklyn resident and mom of two boys, she navigates the alphabet soup of Medicare and the New York City subway system with equal ease. You can email her at elizabeth.obrien@money.com and follow her on Twitter at @elizobrien.

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