Shares for Beginners

Investopedia is often found through a back door, a side door, or through the attic because someone has asked a specific question: "how do I start investing with a thousand dollars?" Or "how do I get exposure to the e-commerce sector without picking individual stocks"? Or "what are the top performing oil ETFs over the past three months?" Caleb Silver is the Editor-in-Chief and Senior Vice President...

Behavioural Finance is the application of psychology to financial decision making. By allowing psychological biases and emotions to affect investment decisions, investors can do serious harm to their wealth. Investors who are prone to behavioural biases will take risks they don’t acknowledge and experience outcomes they did not anticipate. Zaffar Subedar has over 15 years of experience in the fina...

In this Quick Tip John Winters from Superhero talks about the basics of starting a portfolio, and shares some insights from Superhero's user data about the most popular companies and ETFs on the platform. Portfolio tracker Sharesight tracks your trades, shows your true performance, and saves you time and money at tax time. Get 4 months free at https://www.sharesight.com/au/sharesforbeginners Discl...

Many ordinary people view Wall St as a massive blockade of words and jargon with ramparts of complicated financial instruments designed to obfuscate and confuse small retail investors. Thomas J. Hayes is a Hedge Fund manager who is generous in offering insights via his YouTube and Podcast channels. We spoke about starting his career with Cornwall Capital, LP (one of the firms featured in “The Big...

In this Quick Tip Danielle Ecuyer tells us not to get bogged down in calculating all the ratios needed to value companies. It's enough to understand what those rations mean so that you can interpret what the experts are saying. Danielle is the author of Shareplicity 2: A guide to investing in US stock markets – the follow up to her bestselling Shareplicity: A simple approach to share investing. Av...

What is automated, algorithmic or black box trading? How is artificial intelligence used in stock picking? Are computers taking over from humans in selecting and trading stocks and shares. These tools are often used by hedge funds, but today we're going to be talking about being unhedged , a micro-investing app that allows you to invest algorithmically in the US market.. Peter Bakker is the F...

Do you want to find companies that support the values that are important to you and make a contribution to a better world? And do you want to make money? These aims may seem to be at odds with each other but studies show that investing for positive change is a good way to make more money over time. Kylelane's full episode is available at this link: https://www.stocksforbeginners.net/blog/purcell P...

Leverage can be a dangerous thing for investors as losses can be magnified. Leveraged products include CFDs , options and margin loans . Some of these products are pushed to inexperienced investors with slick marketing and promises of outsized returns. My guest today is Liz Tian from CitiFirst Warrants , and she talks about leverage, risk and alternative ways to access investments. Here'...

I’d like to introduce you to a new podcast called ETFs for Beginners. My co-host is Ana Kresina. She’s much better on Instagram than me and you can follow us there by going to @etfsforbeginners. ETFs deserve their own podcast. They can represent a different style of investing altogether, or they can be part of portfolio that includes both individual shares and ETFs. Either way there’s a lot t...

Edmund McCormack is the founder of the crypto-education platform DCHAINED. He's committed to helping everyday investors understand Bitcoin, cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. This episode is not designed to turn anyone into a crypto investor. I'm more interested in finding out about blockchain, the technology behind crypto. It's becoming increasingly important to all kinds of businesse...

Computer networking, data science, and machine learning are at the heart of enterprise software. Anirban Mahanti has serious form in the technology space. Just check out his bio below. This is a far-reaching discussion on technology and looking for opportunities from innovation. Here's a link to the blog post https://www.sharesforbeginners.com/blog/mahanti And here's a link to Anirban's articles a...

Listed Investment Companies have been around for a long time. They've been used by Aussies to help generate income and compound returns for nearly century. In this episode I'm joined by Ian Irvine from LICAT to do some investing 101 and talk about this sector of the market. Here's a link to the blog post: https://www.sharesforbeginners.com/blog/licat And here's a link to find out more about LICAT:...

Research shows that kids form many of their adult money behaviours by the age of seven. Will Rainey is the author of the children's book, Grandpa's Fortune Fables. His work has appeared in the Financial Times, the Times (UK), iNews and The National News. Will's website, Blue Tree Savings is a financial education platform to help parents teach their kids about money.   Link to blog post:...

David Allen is working hard trying to figure out how to avoid the need to work hard later in life. He has learned many lessons that he now wants to share. He is primarily a Shares and Real Estate Investor, but he has insights on Bonds and Crypto Currency as well. Link to episode blog post: https://www.sharesforbeginners.com/blog/happiness   Link to Dave's website: https://howtobuyyourhap...

We need a holiday. We’ll be back soon with new episodes but in the meantime, here is one of my favourite episodes of the podcast.  A pleasant chat with Betsy Westcott. She's a financial wellness coach who is passionate about helping people to learn about finance and investing so they can secure their financial futures. We spoke about: Navigating your financial ship through the dangerous shoal...

We need a holiday. We’ll be back soon with new episodes but in the meantime, here is one of my favourite episodes of the podcast. Scott Phillips is The Motley Fool’s Chief Investment Officer in Australia, and runs the Motley Fool Share Advisor, Million Dollar Portfolio and Everlasting Income services. He's also all over the media, social AND traditional. And a Roosters tragic. He's joined us to ta...

Sebastian Evans is the Chief Investment Officer/Managing Director at NAOS Asset Management, a specialist fund manager providing concentrated exposure to undervalued Australian emerging companies through their three LICs. Sebastian talks through the differences between ETFs and LICs as well as how NAOS finds companies to invest in.  Here is a link to find out more: https://www.naos.com.au/ Por...

Christian Eckelmann is the co-founder of Upstreet, an app that lets you earn shares as you shop. They've just launched Share Gifting so you can give shares and ETFs to your loved ones. Find out more at: https://sharegifting.upstreet.co/ Portfolio tracker Sharesight tracks your trades, shows your true performance, and saves you time and money at tax time. Get 4 months free at https://www.sharesight...

Do you want to find companies that support the values that are important to you and make a contribution to a better world? And do you want to make money? These aims may seem to be at odds with each other but studies show that investing for positive change is a good way to make more money over time. Kylelane Purcell explains all in this ESG focused episode. This was recorded for the international v...

What are hybrids? And how can they help you diversify your portfolio and beat your returns on cash deposits? Brad Dunn, Senior Credit Analyst at Daintree Capital, joined me to talk about how the eInvest DHOF ETF can help you gain exposure to a globally diversified portfolio of Bank Hybrids. He has over 17 years of experience working with investment management firms and banks in Australia.   H...

Are you unsure about when to buy, hold or sell shares? Do you have a system or a checklist? Do you just take a wild punt and lose money? According to Tony Kynaston from Quality at Value , you must systematize your approach, so that you have your reasons for buying and selling ready. You develop rules that guide how and when you buy and sell shares. Tony has distilled things down to 20 odd que...

In this WEEKEND WATCHLIST I’m joined by Gareth Brown from Forager Funds to talk about Blancco (AIM:BLTG)   Here’s a recent quarterly report from Forager: https://foragerfunds.com/news/investor_resources/quarterly-report-both-funds-september-2021/   “Erasure software market leader  Blancco  (AIM:BLTG) reported its full year result. The second half was strong, as expected, with r...

What does a macro guy do? What can they tell us about the world of investing? Anthony Doyle , Investment Specialist at  Fidelity International , joined me to talk about some of the forces that sweep through economies and how they affect markets.   He has over 17 years experience in global finance, working for some of the largest investment management firms in Australi...

What did you learn about money growing up? Is there way of breaking out of your mindset to create financial freedom? Vanessa Stoykov from Evolution Media dedicates her time to developing stories and conversations that make finance easier to understand, trust and engage with. She wants to help everyday Australians unlearn limiting beliefs about money so they can make better financial decisions that...

The BetaShares Crypto Innovators ETF opened this week on the ASX breaking all previous launch records. I was joined by Justin Arzadon to talk about cryptocurrencies, blockchain and the companies that comprise the CRYP index. Here's a link to the blog post https://www.sharesforbeginners.com/blog/cryp Here's a link to Justin's newsletter: https://www.betashares.com.au/insights/a-strong-month-for-btc...