Shares for Beginners

Michael Dee is the founder of Pythagoras Investing , a subscription service in the business of predicting share price behaviour using mathematics. Find out more information here - https://www.pythagorasinvesting.com/ Michael discusses the biases that affect investors. They're difficult to avoid, but being aware of them can make for better investing. This episode is for Deryl from Wollongong who as...

Here's a link to the blog post here https://www.sharesforbeginners.com/blog/ladies-finance-club - Girls Just Want To Have Funds . The Ladies Finance Club is on a mission is to change the way women think about and behave with money. They want women to feel confident & fearless about talking money, budgets, retirement & investing. And guys, all this applies to men as well. You're welcome at...

Steve Bull is the founder & Managing Director of ETF Watch . ETF Watch is non-aligned and Steve is the ideal guest for digging deep into the ETF industry without fear or favour. Here's a link to the blog post https://www.sharesforbeginners.com/blog/steve-bull-etf-watch . This episode was inspired by listener Sarah who asked the questions that we used to approach this subject. You can ask your...

Andrew is Dictator-for-Life at the Strawman Investment Club. This is a great little community where like-minded investors share research and investing ideas. Strawman is a social network and collaborative platform for private investors. It crowdsources research and recommendations on ASX listed companies, drawing on a broad network of experienced contributors. Content is organised and ranked accor...

It was my great pleasure to be invited by the wonderful people at Sharesight (the fabulous on-line portfolio tracking tool) and Finimize to moderate a panel discussion with Doug Morris the CEO of Sharesight , Claude Walker from Ethical Equities , Ted Richards from Six Park and Kylie Parker from Lotus Accountants about common investing mistakes and how to avoid them. Link to the blog post https://w...

Kyle Macintyre is an Investment Specialist at Firetrail. He and the team left Macquarie Bank to start their own fund – to identify and invest in quality Australian shares that are unloved by the market. We talk about the examples of Telstra (ASX:TLS) and Downer EDI (ASX:DOW). They are great case studies to show what goes into a thorough valuation of a company. It's a serious dive into fundamental...

Fiona Balzer is the Policy & Advocacy Manager of the Australian Shareholders’ Association. The ASA is an independent, not-for-profit association for individual investors. Link to the blog post https://www.sharesforbeginners.com/blog/fiona-balzer-australian-shareholders-association Buying a share means that you are buying a part of the company. This also gives you the right to go to the Annual...

This is a bonus episode about a great project that’s been running since March, with workshops still available during September, October & November, 2019. It’s called Own Your Own Financial Future – a project dedicated to empowering women over 55 to build confidence in financial decision making. These are free workshops geared towards women who’ve never been involved in managing their own finan...

Diversification is the key to successful investing. That means considering not only the Australian share market but also the rest of the world. Kanish Chugh joins me to unravel ETFs, international markets and the exciting opportunities available in robotics, artificial intelligence and emerging markets. Link to the blog post https://www.sharesforbeginners.com/blog/kanish-chugh-etf-securities Kanis...

Julian McCormack is from Platinum Asset Management. As a young guy on the road he developed what he called "The Value Investing Contrarian Thing". Julian spoke about this and Platinum’s approach to investment management. They identify and invest in companies they believe to be undervalued. His case study is the German car company BMW. I want you to pay attention to some of the concepts he talks ab...

Ted Richards famous defender for the Sydney Swans, behavioural economist and now Business Development Manager at Six Park, helps first-time investors tackle the biases that may be affecting their investment decisions. Ted introduces us to the low-fee world of robo advice and explains the difference between Bonds undies and Corporate Bonds. Join me in this roving interview as Ted joins the Shares f...

We are so happy to welcome the wonderful and inspirational Louise Bedford to the podcast. She is a behavioural finance expert who knows her way around a chart, especially candlesticks. We discuss fundamental and technical analysis, charts, support and resistance and lots of practical advice about investing in shares. This is a very visual episode so check out the website for more pictures and expl...

Episode blog post available here https://www.sharesforbeginners.com/blog/douglas-morris-ceo-of-sharesight . Doug joined me to chat about Sharesight and the services they provide in portfolio record keeping. An important part of share ownership is record keeping. In these interviews I like to gather tips and advice on how the markets work, investment styles and expertise. Doug and I covered: The hi...

Robin Bowerman is the Head of Corporate Affairs at Vanguard Investments Australia and the Vice Chair of the SMSF Association. Vanguard was founded by one of the legends of investing, Jack Bogle. Robin chats with us about the revolutionary style of index investing pioneered by Bogle, the common mistakes made by novice share traders, the Cost Matters Hypothesis and why humans are not emotionally wir...

Evan McQuire is a great guy and I really enjoyed meeting him and chatting about the markets. He has a brutally honest view of shares, the markets and investing. Evan is highly experienced in equities, derivatives and financial markets with extensive knowledge of stockbroking and wealth management. We sat down and discussed some key sharemarket concepts like fundamental and technical analysis, brok...

Rob Gilmour is a wealth manager helping private clients to understand their money choices. He’s a self-confessed financial nerd and offers a range of skills from accounting and law to financial planning. We discuss how the actual mechanics of share trading haven’t really changed for many decades even though paper share certificates and graph paper aren't used any more. Own a share and you own a pa...

We're all investors in the share market, either directly or through our superannuation. We're handing over management of our investments to organisations who may or may not have our best interests at heart. Where do you go if you're completely new, but want to start learning. The jargon is dense and it can feel like we're being kept deliberately in the dark with all the confusing jargon. In this p...