Starting non-retirement investment account
I would like to start investing in a non-retirement account. I have:
A 401k through my employer I'm contributing to with Vanguard
A 529 for my two daughters, three and five, I'm contributing to with Vanguard
No debt
A six month emergency fund
A couple thousand "play money" I would like to invest for at least one year
The money is just sitting there and I would like to keep up with inflation at the least. Vanguard gives me the option to add a new brokerage account for "stocks, bonds, ETFs, CDs, and non-Vanguard mutual funds."
Are ETFs a good option? If so, how would taxes work? For example, if I invest ,000, it returns 10% in one year and I don't withdraw anything, around how much would I owe on the ,200? If I withdraw the entire ,200 around how much would I owe?
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You pay taxes on any gains you make after selling, so if you buy and hold you won't pay taxes (and you should hold for more than a year so that it gets taxed at the long-term rate, not the short-term rate).
I like ETFs, there are some good ones Vanguard offers that are fairly broad, or you can use something like Betterment.com which invests in a diversified portfolio of ETFs (and includes things like automatic re-balancing and tax-loss harvesting).
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