I think this is a good suggestion but if I had a choice of putting extra money toward my mortgage payment at 6% or throwing it into an index mutual fund I would probably choose to throw it in the index fund. Historically the mutual fund will get you 10% and at a fixed rate of 6% I feel I benefit from the laws of compunding. ANything that I am missing in this logic.
Raybyrnes,
I guess it depends on how much churn your mutual/index fund does in terms of cap gains/dividends distribution. Although ideally it's 10%, reality is there probably will be some distribution at which you'll have to pay taxes. Hence, it's not really 10% gain versus 6%. I'm not sure exactly where my own cutoff is, but I think since my mortgage is 5.5% range, there's slightly more room for me to play this game. Still, I was counting on interest rates on tradition savings/cd's to go up as part of this, so that I would hold some amount in equities and some in short term CD's. But obviously with the fed rate cuts, kinda throws a wrinkle. So to be safe, I've started to pay more of my principle off each month.
