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Speaker 1: Welcome to How the Money. I'm Joel, I'm Matt, and

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Speaker 1: today we're talking about socially responsible investing. Yeah, Joel, I

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Speaker 1: am excited to talk about socially responsible investing. You know,

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Speaker 1: we've got so many requests for this topic. As far

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Speaker 1: as the questions sent into us, it got up voted

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Speaker 1: into a real big boy episode, So we're not taking

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Speaker 1: questions on this one. We'll do a real episode on it.

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Speaker 1: We'll go full length here, the an entire show dedicated

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Speaker 1: to it. And I think socially responsible investing is something

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Speaker 1: that is on the mind of a lot of investors.

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Speaker 1: In particular, younger investors really are trending towards socially responsible

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Speaker 1: investing introves and it's really changing the industry as a whole.

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Speaker 1: You know, let's get into that in just a second. First, Matt,

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Speaker 1: I wanted to let you know I had to buy

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Speaker 1: a new washing machine at a rental property the other day,

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Speaker 1: and I have acutely felt the impact of the Chinese

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Speaker 1: tariffs that are currently in effect. Man washing machine prices

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Speaker 1: and other prices to have gone up just quite a

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Speaker 1: bit thanks to the tariffs that our president has levied

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Speaker 1: against China and I don't like to get political on

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Speaker 1: the show, but it's just worth noting that the tariffs

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Speaker 1: have made are making an actual impact in consumer purchases

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Speaker 1: right now. You're feeling that, I guess, washing machines are

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Speaker 1: made of a lot of steel, so right, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to get old school and wash your clothes by hand. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like a little wash basin, hang them up. My tenant

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Speaker 1: will have to I guess right. I ended up finding

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Speaker 1: that actually buying a used washing machine. While that has

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Speaker 1: gone up in price too from from where it was,

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Speaker 1: it's still it actually made more sense for me to

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Speaker 1: go buy a used washing machine because they're just such

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Speaker 1: a big difference in price right now because the tariffs

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Speaker 1: have made a new washing machine so expensive. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: I feel that buying a used washer and dryer set

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Speaker 1: is a good way to go if you aren't in

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Speaker 1: a hurry, you know, like you see the posted all

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Speaker 1: the time on Facebook, Marketplace online. Uh, and folks are

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Speaker 1: having to unload them because they're moving for work and

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Speaker 1: but yeah, you can really get a good deal on

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Speaker 1: like a brand new like fancy front loading sets for

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Speaker 1: a fraction of of what it would be new. I

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Speaker 1: personally have never purchased a brand new washer dryer ever,

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Speaker 1: that probably doesn't surprise folks. Yeah. Well, actually, the set

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Speaker 1: that I had in this rental property I got for

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Speaker 1: a hundred dollars from a friend who just needed them gone,

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Speaker 1: and I moved to myself and put them in the place.

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Speaker 1: I was just sad to see that the washing machine

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Speaker 1: had kicked the bucket so quickly, you know, within a

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Speaker 1: year and a half of me buying it. Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: you know what a hundred bucks for the set, you know,

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Speaker 1: I still have a working dryer and they're still totally

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Speaker 1: worth it, right, But I was able to score a

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Speaker 1: six month old, almost brand new washing machine that was

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Speaker 1: in really good condition for for three d bucks. So

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Speaker 1: not ideal to pay that much. But when I was

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Speaker 1: machines right now, holy mackerel. Big savings, that's for sure. Yeah. So,

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Speaker 1: by the way, based on my experience with you know,

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Speaker 1: tariffs are impacting different consumer goods that that are sold

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Speaker 1: in our society, I just kind of wanted to put

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Speaker 1: important to shop in the used marketplace because the price

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Speaker 1: gap between new and used has just grown a lot

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Speaker 1: in certain categories. So yeah, just make sure to shop.

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Speaker 1: These tariffs are not ideal for us when we buy items,

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Speaker 1: but you know what, they're kind of part of the

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Speaker 1: way it is. Right now, let's introduce our beer that

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have on this episode. Man. This is Toffee

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Speaker 1: Stouts by Carolina Brewery. And this was another beer sent

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Speaker 1: to us by Emma, and she's out of Chapel Hill Man,

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Speaker 1: and you know when she sent us these beers, she

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Speaker 1: also sent these blue cups. And she said that every

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Speaker 1: Wednesday they go there and they share a beer. She

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Speaker 1: her to think of us. And uh, Emma, thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for sending this beer are away. We're looking forward

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Speaker 1: and drinking it in in the meantime. Alright, Matt, So

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Speaker 1: onto the subject at hand. We're talking about socially responsible investing,

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Speaker 1: and man, these socially responsible investing funds have gained some

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Speaker 1: socially responsible way. Yeah, that's that's kind of mind blowing

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Speaker 1: because there is a lot of money that's being invested

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Speaker 1: it's true, right, Yeah, it's kind of just the pace

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Speaker 1: of socially responsible investing has just really caught on fire

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Speaker 1: and it's pretty incredible. And so this has been the

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Speaker 1: feel like there's a lot to talk about when it

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Speaker 1: comes to socially responsible investing. There are terms that we

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Speaker 1: But first, you know, we should ask ourselves the question

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Speaker 1: should we even be going down this path? Right? Like

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Speaker 1: we've talked about the simplicity of investing, and this in

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Speaker 1: fact adds a curveball into the mix. But it's a

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Speaker 1: valuable option for many, especially if you have issues investing

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Speaker 1: in companies that do business and industries that don't align

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Speaker 1: to invest in unethical companies. Well, you know, first him specifically,

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Speaker 1: the right path to go down. Yeah, Matt, We've talked

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Speaker 1: You know, we've talked about, uh, the simple way to

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Speaker 1: do what, we've talked about the fees involved. But if

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Speaker 1: those aren't your hang ups, right, if your hang up

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Speaker 1: is you want to make sure that you're investing in

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Speaker 1: companies that are doing good in the world, and not

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Speaker 1: knowing if you can actually make that happen has prevented

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Speaker 1: note that it is possible, and then it's gotten easier. Right,

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Speaker 1: And interestingly enough, the perform mints of socially responsible funds

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Speaker 1: it turns out there might even be less risk investing

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Speaker 1: Vanguard FTS Index, the Socially Responsible Index has outperformed Vanguard's

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Speaker 1: that doesn't necessarily mean that's the case. One person's definition

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Speaker 1: which is just generally speaking, socially responsible investing. Typically these

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Speaker 1: weird place, it is, it is, that's true. But but yeah,

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Speaker 1: this beer. All wait, we really appreciate it. Yeah, thank you. Okay, Joe,

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Speaker 1: let's take it to our final thoughts. What we want

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Speaker 1: what you consider socially responsible investing. Maybe for you that's

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Speaker 1: completely avoiding fossil fuels, or maybe that's you know, not

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Speaker 1: don't treat their workers. Well yeah, and don't forget to

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Speaker 1: prioritize low fees at the same time, so crucial. We'll

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Speaker 1: put a link to our favorite low fee E S

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Speaker 1: and by the way, you can find those show notes

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Speaker 1: at how to money dot com. Well yeah, well, on

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Speaker 1: that note, if you found this episode helpful and you're

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Speaker 1: enjoying this podcast, we would love for you to leave

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Speaker 1: to your podcasts. It is all helpful, Thank you so much. However,

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Speaker 1: if you think that we have some room for improvement,

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Speaker 1: Joel and I we are always looking to do better,

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Speaker 1: so you can go to our website how to money

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Speaker 1: dot com, Forward slash do better. Leave us some constructive

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Speaker 1: criticism there, and we read every single one of those.

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Speaker 1: So Joel, that's going to be it for this episode. Man.

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Speaker 1: Until next time, Best Friends Out, Best Friends Out,