Latest / She's On The Money / A rookie's guide to investing: part two
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- 0:00Speaker 1: She's on the Money.
- 0:02Speaker 2: She's on the Money.
- 0:20Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to She's on the Money, the podcast
- 0:23Speaker 1: for millennials who want financial freedom. I'm one of your
- 0:26Speaker 1: co hosts, Annabel Lee. I'm a law student and a
- 0:28Speaker 1: millennial who loves learning more and more about money from
- 0:31Speaker 1: my friend and money expert Victoria Divine. Hey Victoria, good morning.
- 0:35Speaker 1: Welcome back from your trip to New Zealand.
- 0:37Speaker 3: Ah, thank you.
- 0:38Speaker 1: I feel like we need to say I'm recovering from
- 0:40Speaker 1: a cold and Victoria might be catching a cold.
- 0:43Speaker 3: I don't know, maybe we're on the same wavelength.
- 0:45Speaker 1: Perhaps so many of you guys are sharing your amazing
- 0:48Speaker 1: money wins in our Facebook group every day, so let's
- 0:50Speaker 1: draw a couple from the last few weeks. I've got
- 0:53Speaker 1: one from April, she said. It's officially the last day
- 0:56Speaker 1: of no by July. I challenged myself to spend zero
- 0:59Speaker 1: dollars on necessary items during July, and I've only spent
- 1:02Speaker 1: a grand total of five dollars on some stickers for
- 1:04Speaker 1: my three year old. I'm so proud of this achievement.
- 1:06Speaker 1: My husband and I have some pretty massive money decisions
- 1:09Speaker 1: to make in the near future, and I can feel
- 1:10Speaker 1: my attitudes and habits shifting in a more positive direction.
- 1:14Speaker 1: I'm really loving this whole motivational month thing.
- 1:17Speaker 3: I love it as well, and I love that they're
- 1:18Speaker 3: all sharing it in the group as well. Like I
- 1:20Speaker 3: haven't got less excited each time someone posts.
- 1:23Speaker 1: Now someone posts, I'm like, yes, do it no by July.
- 1:27Speaker 1: I feel like works hand in hand with dry July.
- 1:29Speaker 3: It does, but I don't drink, don't buy. Yeah, look,
- 1:32Speaker 3: that's not a fun couple, so I have one as well.
- 1:35Speaker 3: I was actually annoyed at you because I really liked
- 1:37Speaker 3: a pearls and I was going to use it. But
- 1:39Speaker 3: I've got Alaniz And she said, dear, she's on the
- 1:42Speaker 3: money dream team. I just want to say, with all
- 1:44Speaker 3: my heart, thank you since releasing your podcast on my
- 1:47Speaker 3: fifty three thousand dollars salary I have. And she has
- 1:50Speaker 3: a list of things that she's done. Yeah, it was
- 1:53Speaker 3: really cute, so paid out my after pains it Bay.
- 1:56Speaker 3: She has raised the fortnightly repayments on her loan into
- 2:00Speaker 3: years it'll be gone and she's completely happy with that timeline.
- 2:03Speaker 3: She has another tick, and it is she somehow rearranged
- 2:06Speaker 3: her budget so damn well that she now has two
- 2:08Speaker 3: and a half thousand dollars in savings for a holiday
- 2:11Speaker 3: to Japan next year, and that includes fifty dollars a
- 2:14Speaker 3: week of spending money. And she also said that I
- 2:18Speaker 3: no longer feel ashamed or like I'm letting the team down,
- 2:20Speaker 3: and my partner and I have been having frequent open
- 2:23Speaker 3: conversations about money and budgeting strategies, and I think that's
- 2:26Speaker 3: been my favorite part of all And you know what,
- 2:28Speaker 3: that's my favorite part as well, Like, I absolutely love that.
- 2:31Speaker 3: The one thing that she loved about that wasn't just
- 2:34Speaker 3: the financial side of things. It was more the feeling
- 2:37Speaker 3: that she no longer feels hindered by finance, but maybe
- 2:39Speaker 3: more empowered by it.
- 2:40Speaker 1: And it's so important to talk about finance with your
- 2:42Speaker 1: partner because it's like two people's different money stories coming together.
- 2:46Speaker 1: It's important to kind of work them out as.
- 2:48Speaker 3: One, exactly. And if you can't have those conversations, like
- 2:51Speaker 3: laiter down the track, they're going to become really big issues.
- 2:54Speaker 1: I'll catch up to you, exactly. So Victoria, today on
- 2:57Speaker 1: the show, we're talking all things investing again. So we've
- 3:00Speaker 1: already gone through the basics. What's an investment, what's a share?
- 3:04Speaker 1: But today we're going a bit deeper than that. Before
- 3:06Speaker 1: we get there, though, as always, it's time to share
- 3:09Speaker 1: a money win or a money confession from the week,
- 3:11Speaker 1: and as per usual, you can give us off, Victoria.
- 3:14Speaker 3: I know you love going first, always going first. So
- 3:18Speaker 3: this week, as Annabel mentioned, I've just gotten back from
- 3:21Speaker 3: a holiday in New Zealand which was absolutely beautiful. But
- 3:25Speaker 3: my money confession is I didn't stick to budget.
- 3:28Speaker 1: And that's okay sometimes, Oh look it is okay.
- 3:31Speaker 3: I'm a budgeter and I like knowing what's going on.
- 3:33Speaker 3: You should have seen the spreadsheet i'd organized for this holiday.
- 3:37Speaker 3: I had it down to a tee, but a few
- 3:39Speaker 3: things came up, and you know, we saw a couple
- 3:41Speaker 3: of restaurants we wanted to go to and we kind
- 3:44Speaker 3: of just said, well, you know what, we're not putting
- 3:45Speaker 3: it on credit, so let's just do it.
- 3:48Speaker 1: At least you had a spreadsheet. Though I'm a bit
- 3:49Speaker 1: of a holiday spreadsheeter as well, you've got to stick
- 3:52Speaker 1: to the plan.
- 3:53Speaker 3: I love it. I feel like it gets me really
- 3:54Speaker 3: excited for the holiday to come because I know exactly
- 3:57Speaker 3: what's going to happen. And when people are like, oh,
- 3:58Speaker 3: what are you doing. I'm like, well, let me so, Annabel,
- 4:02Speaker 3: what is your money with nor money confession.
- 4:04Speaker 1: I have a money confession. I have the past two
- 4:07Speaker 1: weeks gone to two bottomless brunches, which is totally not
- 4:11Speaker 1: really my thing. I don't drink all that much, but
- 4:14Speaker 1: I've felt a little bit of social pressure, which is
- 4:16Speaker 1: never good. I did have a really good time, though,
- 4:18Speaker 1: and I love brunch, but I feel like I didn't
- 4:20Speaker 1: get my money's work because alcohol is expensive, and so
- 4:24Speaker 1: is the ticket you get like a wristband to get
- 4:26Speaker 1: into bottomless brunch. Oh gosh, And like I calculated in
- 4:29Speaker 1: my head the amount of drinks I needed to drink
- 4:31Speaker 1: and what I needed.
- 4:32Speaker 3: To order to get value, to get value, and.
- 4:34Speaker 1: I don't think I did. I literally had like one
- 4:36Speaker 1: or two drinks and I was like, I'm done, I
- 4:37Speaker 1: gotta tap out.
- 4:38Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like morning drinking is maybe not my thing.
- 4:41Speaker 3: But also it sounds like you definitely didn't do dry July.
- 4:43Speaker 1: Oh no, no no.
- 4:46Speaker 3: And I'm glad brunch comes up in every single episode.
- 4:49Speaker 3: I feel like we need to keep this theme going.
- 4:50Speaker 1: It's an important part of my life, Victoria.
- 4:52Speaker 3: Absolutely it is.
- 4:53Speaker 1: Before we get into this week's topic, let's do a
- 4:55Speaker 1: tiny recap of last week, shall we. So we're on
- 4:58Speaker 1: the same page, Victoria. Why women begin investing more? And
- 5:01Speaker 1: in the simplest of terms, what is a share?
- 5:04Speaker 3: So a share is simply part ownership of a business.
- 5:07Speaker 3: It is a very small piece of the pie that
- 5:10Speaker 3: you get, which entitles you to have a piece of
- 5:13Speaker 3: the growth and the profits of the business you're investing in.
- 5:15Speaker 3: Why should women be investing more? We should be investing
- 5:18Speaker 3: more because it puts us in a place of financial empowerment.
- 5:21Speaker 3: It provides for our future. It puts us in a
- 5:23Speaker 3: position of power, so we're not relying on anybody else
- 5:26Speaker 3: to make decisions for us in the future.
- 5:28Speaker 1: Yes, and that's really important to me as well. The
- 5:30Speaker 1: place I want to start is here. I think there
- 5:32Speaker 1: are many different types of investment.
- 5:33Speaker 4: Right.
- 5:34Speaker 1: You mentioned to me earlier that buying shares is just
- 5:36Speaker 1: one asset class. Can you explain a little to me
- 5:39Speaker 1: what that means?
- 5:40Speaker 3: So an asset class is just a type of investment.
- 5:43Speaker 3: And there are four main asset classes that we refer
- 5:46Speaker 3: to in the investment world, and those are fixed interest, cash, property,
- 5:51Speaker 3: and shares.
- 5:52Speaker 1: What is fixed interest?
- 5:53Speaker 3: Let's talk about one fixed interest is things. They call
- 5:56Speaker 3: them securities, and they are like bonds, and they really
- 6:00Speaker 3: operate in exactly the same way that a loan operates.
- 6:03Speaker 3: So you are lending money to something or someone with
- 6:07Speaker 3: the expectation of a return. So you pay cash for
- 6:11Speaker 3: a bond, you get the bond, they give you a certificate,
- 6:13Speaker 3: and in return, you receive a regular interest payment from
- 6:16Speaker 3: the bond issuer for an agreed period of time, and
- 6:19Speaker 3: then once that period of time is up, you will
- 6:21Speaker 3: receive your bond or the initial sum back.
- 6:24Speaker 1: So you said cash was one of the asset classes.
- 6:27Speaker 1: What did you mean by that?
- 6:28Speaker 3: So that refers to all of the money you've got
- 6:30Speaker 3: sitting in your bank account right now. So that could
- 6:32Speaker 3: either be earning you no money in an interest free account,
- 6:36Speaker 3: or it could be earning you, you know, one or
- 6:38Speaker 3: two percent, depending on what the market is doing. But
- 6:40Speaker 3: cash is an investment in itself.
- 6:42Speaker 1: Okay, amazing. So Victoria, is it possible for me to
- 6:45Speaker 1: earn money while my shares are locked up in an investment.
- 6:48Speaker 1: I've heard that there's an option for me to receive
- 6:50Speaker 1: payouts and another to keep it in there for the
- 6:53Speaker 1: long run.
- 6:53Speaker 3: Is that true? So yes, you're right, and so what
- 6:56Speaker 3: you're talking about in terms of regular payouts is actually
- 6:59Speaker 3: the divid and being paid to you. So you can
- 7:01Speaker 3: do one of two things with the dividend. You can
- 7:03Speaker 3: choose to take that as income because it will, you know,
- 7:06Speaker 3: come in every quarter or every six months, or however
- 7:09Speaker 3: often your dividend gets paid out. You will get that
- 7:12Speaker 3: cash into your account, and you have two options. So
- 7:15Speaker 3: you can either take that cash and spend it on
- 7:16Speaker 3: whatever you would like to increase your monthly or weekly income,
- 7:20Speaker 3: or you are able to reinvest your dividends into your
- 7:23Speaker 3: share portfolio. And that's what creates compounding interest. So over time,
- 7:27Speaker 3: if you're consistently reinvesting the amount of money that your
- 7:31Speaker 3: shares make for you back into the share market, your
- 7:34Speaker 3: share portfolio grows without you always having to contribute more
- 7:38Speaker 3: and more income.
- 7:39Speaker 1: So compound interest is kind of like interest on your interest.
- 7:43Speaker 3: Yeah, so compound interest is the interest your interest earns
- 7:47Speaker 3: over a period of time.
- 7:49Speaker 1: Right, And so combound interest is a good thing.
- 7:51Speaker 3: It's a brilliant thing.
- 7:52Speaker 1: Great, So we know the basics of investing. Now let's
- 7:55Speaker 1: push a little deeper in discussions of investing. I hear
- 7:58Speaker 1: the word diversification thrown around lot. What on earth is
- 8:01Speaker 1: everyone talking about and why is diversifying my investments such
- 8:04Speaker 1: a good thing.
- 8:05Speaker 3: So diversification, which we briefly touched on just before, is
- 8:09Speaker 3: essentially what we're going to call a risk management strategy.
- 8:12Speaker 3: So risk management strategy is where you're essentially not putting
- 8:16Speaker 3: all your eggs in one basket. It means you're picking
- 8:19Speaker 3: a variety of different investments. So instead of just going
- 8:23Speaker 3: and buying Telstra shares and owning shares in Telstra and
- 8:26Speaker 3: if the performance of that company doesn't do so well,
- 8:29Speaker 3: your share portfolio doesn't do so well. It means picking
- 8:32Speaker 3: a range of different investments from different asset classes, so
- 8:35Speaker 3: that if one company isn't performing, that should be okay
- 8:38Speaker 3: because that all evens out and over time your investment
- 8:41Speaker 3: portfolio will increase.
- 8:43Speaker 1: Yeah, so we should all be trying to diversify it absolutely.
- 8:46Speaker 3: I wouldn't want to carry all my eggs in one basket,
- 8:49Speaker 3: and as much as you do, yeah, look really heavy basket.
- 8:52Speaker 3: But also it just means that we are spread out
- 8:55Speaker 3: in different types of investments, and it means that we
- 8:58Speaker 3: are less likely to, you know, have really big fluctuations
- 9:01Speaker 3: in our portfolio value.
- 9:03Speaker 1: Okay, so what about ETFs? Then what is an ETF?
- 9:07Speaker 1: I mean, I tried to google it and every time
- 9:08Speaker 1: I searched it it made ETF sound like the most
- 9:11Speaker 1: complicated thing on the planet. Is that the case?
- 9:14Speaker 3: Absolutely? No, No, not at all. So an ETF is
- 9:17Speaker 3: actually super simple. And ETF means an exchange traded fund,
- 9:22Speaker 3: which I don't think means that much to any right now.
- 9:25Speaker 3: But what you can do. You can think of an
- 9:27Speaker 3: ETF as a basket of investments. So each ETF purchases
- 9:31Speaker 3: a range of different assets like shares, bonds, commodities, different currencies,
- 9:36Speaker 3: and their aim is to match the performance of a
- 9:38Speaker 3: particular market index or a benchmark. So, for example, you
- 9:43Speaker 3: could have an ETF and purchase one that aims to
- 9:46Speaker 3: track the top two hundred stocks or shares in Australia,
- 9:50Speaker 3: and by investing those with an ETF, it means you
- 9:52Speaker 3: get a wide variety of diversification without you individually having
- 9:56Speaker 3: to go and purchase a wide variety of different stocks.
- 10:00Speaker 3: Also means you can get into the share market with
- 10:02Speaker 3: less income, because to have a well diversified portfolio where
- 10:06Speaker 3: you have individual stocks, you actually need to have a
- 10:09Speaker 3: lot of cash to invest, whereas an ETF means you
- 10:12Speaker 3: can invest with less money but still have that level
- 10:16Speaker 3: of diversification that we would recommend you have anyway.
- 10:19Speaker 1: So an ETF is your friend.
- 10:21Speaker 3: Absolutely, an ETF is your friend.
- 10:22Speaker 1: Another one that I couldn't quite get a straight answer
- 10:25Speaker 1: on with a Google search, what is a managed investment product?
- 10:29Speaker 1: Can I go to a company like say MLC and
- 10:32Speaker 1: have them decide where I shall put my money?
- 10:34Speaker 3: So an ETF is actually a managed investment product? Ah,
- 10:38Speaker 3: So a managed investment is actually known often as a
- 10:41Speaker 3: pulled investment. It's where your money as an investor gets
- 10:44Speaker 3: pulled together with the money of lots of other investors,
- 10:47Speaker 3: and it's managed by some investment experts, like a fund manager,
- 10:51Speaker 3: and they buy and sell investments on your behalf in
- 10:54Speaker 3: a big group. So instead of you know, you having
- 10:57Speaker 3: an individual stockbroker who is quite ex expensive, you're dividing
- 11:01Speaker 3: that cost up with a really big group of people.
- 11:03Speaker 3: Because the bigger your fund is, the more power it
- 11:06Speaker 3: has and the less money you're going to have to pay.
- 11:08Speaker 3: So you're essentially getting a fund manager without having to
- 11:11Speaker 3: pay them directly.
- 11:12Speaker 1: Vijori, I'm going to be completely honest with you, I'm
- 11:14Speaker 1: still very confused.
- 11:16Speaker 3: I thought you might be. I could see it. So
- 11:19Speaker 3: a managed fund, as I said, pulls all your money
- 11:22Speaker 3: together with other investors, and then a fund manager makes
- 11:26Speaker 3: all the decisions for that investment portfolio. So an example
- 11:30Speaker 3: of that is, say we have a thousand investors and
- 11:33Speaker 3: they decide to invest ten thousand dollars each into a
- 11:35Speaker 3: bank account together, and then in return they'll get ten
- 11:38Speaker 3: thousand units each, and that is one dollar then would
- 11:42Speaker 3: buy you one unit. So the money that's in the fund,
- 11:45Speaker 3: that professional fund manager makes all the decisions on which
- 11:48Speaker 3: stocks there are and how that works, and invests the money,
- 11:52Speaker 3: and if the investments do well, then the unit price
- 11:55Speaker 3: that you own will increase.
- 11:57Speaker 1: So who are these one thousand people? Are they strangers?
- 12:00Speaker 1: How do they group together?
- 12:01Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 12:01Speaker 3: Like they're true. Yes, they're not your friends. They are
- 12:05Speaker 3: just people who are in similar situations to you, who
- 12:08Speaker 3: I would assume have the same risk profile as you.
- 12:10Speaker 3: And someone picks you up and says, all right, no problems,
- 12:13Speaker 3: here's the ETF that you suit best, and that will
- 12:16Speaker 3: be really similar for the other people in the fund.
- 12:18Speaker 3: So they might be investors. They also only have ten
- 12:21Speaker 3: thousand dollars to invest, and they're you know, popping it
- 12:23Speaker 3: in all equally. And you know, we go from there
- 12:26Speaker 3: in saying that it doesn't have to be equal. So
- 12:28Speaker 3: you could go in with five thousand dollars and someone
- 12:31Speaker 3: else could go in with fifty thousand dollars. The amount
- 12:34Speaker 3: that that changes, or what that changes is just how
- 12:37Speaker 3: many units in that you own. So with your one
- 12:40Speaker 3: thousand dollars, you would own a thousand shares, and with
- 12:42Speaker 3: their fifty thousand they would own fifty thousand. Does that
- 12:45Speaker 3: make sense?
- 12:45Speaker 4: Yes?
- 12:45Speaker 1: I think so, Victoria. I saw on the Facebook group
- 12:48Speaker 1: that you said ETFs aren't for everybody. Why aren't they
- 12:51Speaker 1: your only investment option?
- 12:53Speaker 3: So I think it's really important that when we talk
- 12:55Speaker 3: about ETFs we understand the proper structure of them. So
- 13:00Speaker 3: is a separately managed fund. So it is a fund
- 13:04Speaker 3: that you put your money into and then you own
- 13:07Speaker 3: units in that fund. You do not own those shares directly.
- 13:12Speaker 3: So you might own a unit in this fund and
- 13:14Speaker 3: that fund owns A and Z, but you do not
- 13:17Speaker 3: own A and Z shares directly. So for me, as
- 13:20Speaker 3: a financial advisor, I really want to mitigate risk, right,
- 13:23Speaker 3: Like it's my job to put you in the best
- 13:25Speaker 3: possible position. And whilst an ETF is a really brilliant
- 13:29Speaker 3: choice for someone who doesn't have one hundred thousand dollars
- 13:31Speaker 3: of capital, it's also something where I say, look, there's
- 13:35Speaker 3: a bit of risk there as well, because by having
- 13:37Speaker 3: a fund manager making decisions for you, you could wake up
- 13:41Speaker 3: tomorrow and your shares in A and Z have been
- 13:43Speaker 3: sold down and maybe that's not something that you wanted.
- 13:46Speaker 3: So for me and ETF is a really great entry
- 13:50Speaker 3: point to the investment market where you can start building
- 13:53Speaker 3: a portfolio up, and once you've built it up to
- 13:56Speaker 3: a certain level, we then start talking about buying shares directly,
- 14:00Speaker 3: so that you and Annabelle would own that A and
- 14:02Speaker 3: Z share instead of a fund owning it on your
- 14:05Speaker 3: behalf and just giving you part of the profit. You
- 14:08Speaker 3: would get the profit directly. Does that make sense, Yeah,
- 14:10Speaker 3: it does. So I think that ETFs are a really
- 14:13Speaker 3: great thing to start playing with. It's a bit like raise,
- 14:16Speaker 3: so raise owns atfs and the different portfolios will be
- 14:20Speaker 3: dependent upon what your tolerance to risk is. And I
- 14:23Speaker 3: think that, you know, great introduction to the market, But
- 14:26Speaker 3: I also don't want people to think the ETFs are
- 14:29Speaker 3: the only way you invest in the market, because if
- 14:31Speaker 3: you have enough capital, you can be buying shares directly
- 14:35Speaker 3: and you can be the personal owner of you know,
- 14:37Speaker 3: those Telstra shares or those A and Z shares.
- 14:40Speaker 1: So it's a great way to like dip your toes in,
- 14:41Speaker 1: But the main end goal is to own your own
- 14:44Speaker 1: shares directly.
- 14:45Speaker 3: Yes, and once we're talking about investment portfolios over one
- 14:48Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars, which sounds crazy to people, but because
- 14:51Speaker 3: you guys are young, that's going to happen at some
- 14:53Speaker 3: point if you invest now, once it's over one hundred
- 14:56Speaker 3: thousand dollars, we really need to be looking at owning
- 14:58Speaker 3: things directly because one owning directly means you're not paying
- 15:01Speaker 3: a fund manager to manage your funds for you. But
- 15:04Speaker 3: then also you don't have the risk associated with somebody
- 15:08Speaker 3: selling down an asset that you might not want to lose.
- 15:11Speaker 1: Yeah, so you're in power.
- 15:13Speaker 3: Yeah, you've got the power once you own direct shares,
- 15:15Speaker 3: whereas an ETF carries a little bit of risk because
- 15:18Speaker 3: someone else is making the decisions on your behalf.
- 15:20Speaker 1: Okay, so tell me if I've got this right. As
- 15:22Speaker 1: a bit of a recap compound interest is a fabulous
- 15:25Speaker 1: thing because we make more money. Diversification is great because
- 15:28Speaker 1: we're mitigating risk, and an ETF means we own shares
- 15:32Speaker 1: but not directly, and it can be a great intro
- 15:34Speaker 1: into the market. I think I'm finally starting to get
- 15:37Speaker 1: a handle on this.
- 15:38Speaker 3: I think you are as well.
- 15:39Speaker 1: Goodbye then, Hi there, you've called the shoes on the
- 15:47Speaker 1: Money Hotline. Do you have a money problem you want
- 15:49Speaker 1: help solving. Do you have a money dilemma you just
- 15:51Speaker 1: want to chat about. Victoria is here to help. Each
- 15:54Speaker 1: week we'll be playing your hotline questions to help make
- 15:57Speaker 1: sense of the money mess you may have found yourself in.
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- 16:02Speaker 1: double eighty six and you might find yourself on the show.
- 16:13Speaker 5: Hi there, I have a question about investing. I have
- 16:19Speaker 5: absolutely no idea where to start. In terms of investing.
- 16:22Speaker 5: I've set up my super account of research that I have,
- 16:26Speaker 5: you know, consulted people, and I feel like my super
- 16:29Speaker 5: is really well set up and researched. However, for my
- 16:33Speaker 5: long term gain obviously, but in terms of short term gain,
- 16:36Speaker 5: maybe for the next five to ten years. In terms
- 16:39Speaker 5: of investing, I have absolutely no idea where to start,
- 16:42Speaker 5: and I would really love to help. You know, I'm
- 16:45Speaker 5: quite scared, to be honest, to put money into it
- 16:47Speaker 5: that I want to learn and I want to give
- 16:48Speaker 5: it a go, So any help around anything investing would
- 16:51Speaker 5: be really beneficial.
- 16:53Speaker 1: Thanks Victoria. I've actually seen this a lot in the
- 16:56Speaker 1: Facebook group. Where do you start with investing? How much
- 17:00Speaker 1: money do you need? Do you need one lump sum
- 17:03Speaker 1: or is it more like a series of deposits?
- 17:05Speaker 3: So you're right, this is something that comes up all
- 17:08Speaker 3: the time, and it's probably the biggest question I get.
- 17:11Speaker 3: Where do I start with investment? This is a really
- 17:14Speaker 3: hard question to answer because everybody is so different, so
- 17:18Speaker 3: investment is a really personal thing. But I would love
- 17:21Speaker 3: to be able to give you guys a little bit
- 17:23Speaker 3: of direction in terms of where you can actually start.
- 17:26Speaker 3: So there's a few places. So you can start with
- 17:29Speaker 3: investment platforms like rais or Spaceship or you know micro
- 17:32Speaker 3: investment platforms that start you off in an investment platform
- 17:37Speaker 3: and you can start tracking the market and see what
- 17:39Speaker 3: it does and understand risk profiles and understand what's going on.
- 17:43Speaker 3: They're really really great resources. You can go to the
- 17:46Speaker 3: ASX website. At the moment, they've just released the ASX
- 17:50Speaker 3: trading game. It's a bit like Monopoly, but it's online
- 17:53Speaker 3: and you can play with shares with fake money, and
- 17:56Speaker 3: you know, see how you go for a little while
- 17:58Speaker 3: doing it on your own. I mentioned in our last
- 18:01Speaker 3: episode a number of different platforms, and now I'm not
- 18:04Speaker 3: saying I recommend them, but a number of different reputable
- 18:08Speaker 3: platforms that you're able to buy shares directly through. And
- 18:12Speaker 3: then you're also able to see a financial advisor. And
- 18:15Speaker 3: whilst I think that that's a really intimidating response, it's
- 18:18Speaker 3: probably the best one, to be honest. And that's not
- 18:21Speaker 3: because I'm a financial advisor and I want you guys
- 18:23Speaker 3: all to come and see me, but yeah, please do. Yeah,
- 18:26Speaker 3: shameless self promotion, but seeing a financial advisor means you're
- 18:30Speaker 3: going to get a customized strategy that suits the goals
- 18:33Speaker 3: you're trying to achieve and puts you in the best
- 18:36Speaker 3: possible position to achieve all of those goals and create
- 18:39Speaker 3: wealth long term. So the listener that we were just
- 18:42Speaker 3: listening to before mentioned that she wanted some short term
- 18:46Speaker 3: investment topics.
- 18:47Speaker 1: Yes you did.
- 18:48Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't recommend short term investment. If you are
- 18:50Speaker 3: looking to invest money for five years, it's just simply
- 18:53Speaker 3: not enough. You need to be looking at investing for
- 18:56Speaker 3: the long term. She sounded really on top of her.
- 18:58Speaker 3: Super sounded really on top you know what she'd been
- 19:00Speaker 3: looking at. But investment is something that we are looking
- 19:03Speaker 3: at for the long term, not for the short term.
- 19:05Speaker 3: If you're looking to invest money for anything under five years,
- 19:09Speaker 3: I'd honestly be really hesitant to expose it to the
- 19:12Speaker 3: share market because it's just too volatile in that short
- 19:15Speaker 3: period of time. However, over twenty thirty years, the volatility
- 19:20Speaker 3: of the share market, which means how much it fluctuates,
- 19:23Speaker 3: is far far less, And I don't think there's been
- 19:26Speaker 3: a period of time in the Australian share market history
- 19:29Speaker 3: where we have had a negative return over a thirty
- 19:32Speaker 3: year period. So for me, long term investment is where
- 19:36Speaker 3: we're at. It's not about investing for five or six years.
- 19:39Speaker 3: It's about creating a strategy that you can have forever.
- 19:42Speaker 1: So if I had like fifty grand in savings, not
- 19:45Speaker 1: that I do, sad, that's not enough. I need to
- 19:48Speaker 1: be able to make it a long term consistent lifestyle
- 19:51Speaker 1: mindset kind.
- 19:52Speaker 3: Of thing lifestyle mindset is absolutely correct. However, you don't
- 19:57Speaker 3: need fifty thousand dollars in savings to start a sharepot fall.
- 20:00Speaker 3: What you need is good savings habits, and you need
- 20:03Speaker 3: to be able to contribute to your investment plan on
- 20:06Speaker 3: a regular basis. So in the last episode, I explained
- 20:10Speaker 3: that to create wealth, you needed to spend less than
- 20:13Speaker 3: you earn and you need to consistently invest over the
- 20:17Speaker 3: long term. And to be able to do that, you
- 20:19Speaker 3: don't need a massive amount of capital to start. It's nice,
- 20:22Speaker 3: it's a great place to begin, but if you don't
- 20:24Speaker 3: have that, work out how much per month you're going
- 20:27Speaker 3: to be able to invest, whether that's three hundred dollars
- 20:30Speaker 3: five hundred dollars, are you able to invest one thousand
- 20:32Speaker 3: dollars a month? Work out a way that you can
- 20:35Speaker 3: test yourself on that. So I'm not saying commit yourself
- 20:38Speaker 3: to something that you can't maintain, but maybe over the
- 20:40Speaker 3: next three months, work out if you can put that
- 20:42Speaker 3: five hundred dollars a month aside and you don't miss
- 20:45Speaker 3: it too much, then work out how am I going
- 20:48Speaker 3: to do this? And that's when you need to talk
- 20:49Speaker 3: to a financial advisor. To create that strategy that is
- 20:52Speaker 3: going to endure and make sure that you are achieving
- 20:54Speaker 3: those goals.
- 20:55Speaker 1: Right, let's roll into our second question.
- 21:01Speaker 6: Hi, Victorian and Annabel, I just have a quick question
- 21:03Speaker 6: for you. What is Raise and why does everyone in
- 21:05Speaker 6: the Facebook group always talk about it?
- 21:07Speaker 3: Thanks?
- 21:09Speaker 1: Victoria? What's Raised? Can you give us a quick summary?
- 21:12Speaker 4: So?
- 21:13Speaker 3: Raises an investment product. It is something that you know,
- 21:16Speaker 3: gets a lot of exposure through the She's on the
- 21:18Speaker 3: Money community because I think a lot of people in
- 21:20Speaker 3: the group are already invested in it or see it
- 21:23Speaker 3: as a really accessible way to begin their investment journey,
- 21:26Speaker 3: which it absolutely is. However, it is just one investment
- 21:30Speaker 3: product in a sea of many. So as much as
- 21:33Speaker 3: it's got more exposure, I don't think Raise is, you know,
- 21:36Speaker 3: necessarily the perfect tool for everybody. It's great personally, I
- 21:40Speaker 3: have it in addition to my actual share portfolio because
- 21:43Speaker 3: I really like it. I think it's a really great
- 21:45Speaker 3: little roundup tool. I invest a small amount per month
- 21:48Speaker 3: so I can see it grow, But once I reach
- 21:50Speaker 3: a certain number, I then sell down my portfolio and
- 21:54Speaker 3: shift that money into my wider portfolio because I have
- 21:57Speaker 3: lower fees in there. Okay, So we've had a lot
- 22:00Speaker 3: of conversations this week in the Facebook group about the
- 22:03Speaker 3: fees on rays being exorbitant at the end of the day, yes,
- 22:06Speaker 3: they are expensive if you only have fifty or one
- 22:08Speaker 3: hundred dollars in the account. But the purpose of investment
- 22:11Speaker 3: is to consistently invest over the long term, and if
- 22:15Speaker 3: you are consistently investing, that fee becomes lower and lower
- 22:18Speaker 3: and lower. So a five dollar fee on a fifty
- 22:21Speaker 3: dollars investment sounds like a lot, But once you're looking
- 22:23Speaker 3: at you know, two or three or four thousand dollars
- 22:25Speaker 3: in your raise account, which is the ultimate goal, you know,
- 22:29Speaker 3: that fee kind of dissipates and becomes not as impactful
- 22:32Speaker 3: as it would be at the very beginning of your
- 22:35Speaker 3: investment journey. So I think it's really important to realize
- 22:38Speaker 3: that you know, with every investment product there will be fees,
- 22:41Speaker 3: and with every investment product it might not be the
- 22:43Speaker 3: right product for you. You really need to be reading
- 22:46Speaker 3: their product exclosure statements and understanding what that product does,
- 22:49Speaker 3: why it does it, and how it works.
- 22:55Speaker 6: Hi, guys, I'm just wondering if it's better off investing
- 22:58Speaker 6: your disposable income to a hedge fund account or to
- 23:03Speaker 6: set up a high interest earning saving account with a bank.
- 23:07Speaker 6: Loving the podcast, thank you so much.
- 23:10Speaker 1: All right, So what actually is a hedge fund?
- 23:13Speaker 3: So hedge fund uses more than one type of investment strategy,
- 23:17Speaker 3: so it's kind of like diversifying, but not just in stocks,
- 23:20Speaker 3: in the strategy that you use to invest in the stocks.
- 23:24Speaker 3: It's a bit like a managed fund. However, the scope
- 23:27Speaker 3: is a lot broader and they often invest in private businesses.
- 23:31Speaker 3: So essentially, in my experience, they are for higher network
- 23:34Speaker 3: people who are prepared to pay a fair bit more
- 23:37Speaker 3: money to invest their money in investments that other people
- 23:40Speaker 3: aren't invested in. They tend to take up quite a
- 23:43Speaker 3: lot of fees, so they tend to take on quite
- 23:45Speaker 3: a lot of risk to justify the fees that they have.
- 23:48Speaker 3: And generally these fees are anywhere between two and four
- 23:50Speaker 3: percent of the funds that you have in that account,
- 23:53Speaker 3: which is actually quite a high investment fee. So just
- 23:55Speaker 3: to normalize that a little bit, average investment fees should
- 23:58Speaker 3: be under one percent if you're paying investment.
- 24:01Speaker 1: Fees, and what are the hedge fund fees.
- 24:04Speaker 3: So they could be anywhere between two and four percent? Okay,
- 24:07Speaker 3: so there are a lot more than average. You know
- 24:08Speaker 3: your ETF or your direct managed fund, or you know
- 24:11Speaker 3: what you're working on with your financial advisor.
- 24:14Speaker 1: So you said the term diversification before. Yes, that's a
- 24:17Speaker 1: good thing.
- 24:17Speaker 3: Right, Diversification is really good, and that's actually what hedging means.
- 24:21Speaker 3: So hedging means protecting against risk. However, a hedge fund
- 24:27Speaker 3: is a lot, in my experience, is a lot more
- 24:30Speaker 3: risky than you know, an ETF or something that is
- 24:32Speaker 3: quite vanilla. Hedge funds I probably wouldn't be playing with
- 24:36Speaker 3: if they're your first investment or you know, you're first
- 24:39Speaker 3: getting into the market. But I think that it's really
- 24:41Speaker 3: important to understand what they are, how they work, and
- 24:45Speaker 3: you know when you might be using them.
- 24:47Speaker 1: So if you're a high net wealth client.
- 24:49Speaker 3: Yes, but also if you've got the risk profile for it,
- 24:52Speaker 3: so you know, you could be a really conservative investor
- 24:54Speaker 3: and a hedge fund might not be the right option
- 24:56Speaker 3: for you, Whereas if you have you know the capacity
- 24:59Speaker 3: and and the want to take on a lot more risk,
- 25:01Speaker 3: a hedge fund might be a place that you want
- 25:03Speaker 3: to start investing. It's all about understanding your risk profile. Again,
- 25:07Speaker 3: I probably sound like a broken record here, but understanding
- 25:10Speaker 3: your risk profile is the most important part of investment
- 25:13Speaker 3: because as boring as this sounds, and as much as
- 25:15Speaker 3: a lot of people laugh at me when I say
- 25:17Speaker 3: this as a financial advisor, I just want you to
- 25:19Speaker 3: be able to sleep at night, and that means not
- 25:21Speaker 3: stressing every minute of the day. And you know when
- 25:24Speaker 3: you go to bed about your investments, and if you are,
- 25:26Speaker 3: you really need to have a look at maybe changing
- 25:28Speaker 3: that strategy, becoming more educated on it, or talking to
- 25:32Speaker 3: your financial advisor about how to diversify even further to
- 25:35Speaker 3: make sure that that's not an issue for you.
- 25:38Speaker 1: Now it's time for our weekly money dary. My favorite
- 25:41Speaker 1: part today's money dary is from a twenty four year
- 25:45Speaker 1: old PhD student who isn't able to work because of
- 25:48Speaker 1: a demanding university course.
- 25:49Speaker 4: I'm living off a research stipend, so I kind of
- 25:52Speaker 4: get paid to study, which means I don't have much
- 25:55Speaker 4: time to do actual work, and it means I have
- 25:58Speaker 4: to live off about thirty grand.
- 26:00Speaker 1: Okay, so we know twenty four and living off a
- 26:02Speaker 1: scholarship spends a bunch of time at university. But let's
- 26:05Speaker 1: hear the nitty gritty stuff. How much does she earn
- 26:07Speaker 1: and how much is sitting in her bank account right now.
- 26:10Speaker 4: I'm doing a PhD in psychology. It's actually twenty eight grand,
- 26:14Speaker 4: and then I do a little bit of teaching, so
- 26:16Speaker 4: pushes it up to thirty and I think thirty sounds
- 26:19Speaker 4: a lot more adult than twenty eight. For some reason,
- 26:22Speaker 4: that true grand makes a little bit of a difference.
- 26:24Speaker 3: I have about.
- 26:24Speaker 4: Seven grand, but that is only because I have been
- 26:27Speaker 4: living at home until very recently, so most of that
- 26:30Speaker 4: saving is not from what my life is like right now.
- 26:33Speaker 4: It's most of that saving is from when I was
- 26:35Speaker 4: having at home and was working but not didn't really
- 26:38Speaker 4: have any kind of expenses. So I moved out of
- 26:40Speaker 4: home about eight months ago and basically paying rent on
- 26:44Speaker 4: my income. I've really been struggling to save anything more
- 26:47Speaker 4: than like one hundred dollars a week.
- 26:49Speaker 3: Got fifty dollars a week.
- 26:50Speaker 1: So we know how twenty four and living off a
- 26:52Speaker 1: scholarship gets paid, But what exactly happens to that money
- 26:55Speaker 1: after it's deposited into her account?
- 26:57Speaker 4: So it comes in about every fortnight and each fortnite,
- 27:01Speaker 4: so it's about one tho sixty a fortnite, and then
- 27:05Speaker 4: I pay rent every month, and that the scholarship that
- 27:08Speaker 4: comes during that time goes all of it goes towards rent,
- 27:11Speaker 4: and then the pay before that kind of is what
- 27:13Speaker 4: I live off. So every month I get kind of
- 27:16Speaker 4: two paychecks and they're both the same, about one thousand
- 27:19Speaker 4: and sixty one goes the entire one goes to rent,
- 27:22Speaker 4: and then the.
- 27:22Speaker 1: Other one I live off.
- 27:23Speaker 4: And then in the introm when I'm teaching, I try
- 27:26Speaker 4: and save what I can with a little bit of
- 27:29Speaker 4: extra kind of money that comes in, which is probably
- 27:32Speaker 4: about two three hundred a fortnite, so it's not a
- 27:36Speaker 4: whole lot, but yeah, I try and put away a
- 27:38Speaker 4: tiny bit.
- 27:38Speaker 1: If I count every month, probably ranges from.
- 27:41Speaker 4: About gosh, it can be like twenty dollars some months
- 27:44Speaker 4: where things are a bit grim, but then it can
- 27:48Speaker 4: also be up to like two three hundred dollars a month.
- 27:51Speaker 1: So she's got a pretty healthy sum in her bank account.
- 27:53Speaker 1: How does she go with investing?
- 27:54Speaker 3: Though?
- 27:55Speaker 1: Oh dear.
- 27:58Speaker 4: The period we're bitcoin real one found out about bitcoin,
- 28:02Speaker 4: I was like, I should definitely buy some bitcoin. So
- 28:05Speaker 4: I decided to buy some bitcoin when everyone knew about bitcoin,
- 28:09Speaker 4: and then it went down straight after that, so I
- 28:13Speaker 4: absolutely do not know anything about investing, and I probably
- 28:16Speaker 4: should know a little bit.
- 28:17Speaker 3: More about it.
- 28:17Speaker 1: And what about her debts?
- 28:19Speaker 4: Oh, this is a this is a sad one. I
- 28:22Speaker 4: have about forty grand of hextet at the moment, and
- 28:26Speaker 4: actually did not even think about it until I was
- 28:28Speaker 4: asked to do this little podcast segment. It's just it's
- 28:32Speaker 4: something that I just pretend doesn't exist. I guess because
- 28:35Speaker 4: I'm probably not going to be earning enough to pay
- 28:37Speaker 4: it off for the next two three years. I actually
- 28:40Speaker 4: didn't even know how much I had in debt until
- 28:42Speaker 4: I was going until I knew that I was gonna
- 28:45Speaker 4: be asked this question.
- 28:46Speaker 1: Forty grand sounds like a lot. Just twenty four are
- 28:49Speaker 1: living off a scholarship. Have any good money habits that
- 28:51Speaker 1: she's especially proud of?
- 28:52Speaker 4: Oh, I think it's actually it's probably being in a
- 28:56Speaker 4: probably always making sure that I can put away at
- 28:58Speaker 4: least a tiny bit each month, and some months that
- 29:01Speaker 4: tiny bit might actually just be like fifty dollars. But
- 29:04Speaker 4: I've just been in a habit. I've just been in
- 29:06Speaker 4: the habit of putting away what I can every month
- 29:09Speaker 4: for almost as long as I remember. It used to
- 29:13Speaker 4: be a lot more when I was living at home,
- 29:14Speaker 4: and now it actually very often than not, is like
- 29:17Speaker 4: fifty or one hundred dollars a month. But I think just
- 29:19Speaker 4: being just knowing that I.
- 29:21Speaker 1: Should do that is a good habit. What about her
- 29:24Speaker 1: worst money habit?
- 29:25Speaker 3: Probably coffee.
- 29:25Speaker 4: Actually, I'm really lucky in that where I work three
- 29:29Speaker 4: days a week there's a coffee machine, but the other
- 29:31Speaker 4: two days I work somewhere else and unfortunately they don't
- 29:35Speaker 4: have a coffee machine. So it means that I buy
- 29:37Speaker 4: buy coffee about twice a week during the week and
- 29:39Speaker 4: then twice on the weekend, so by coffee about four
- 29:41Speaker 4: days a week. And then I also spent a lot
- 29:43Speaker 4: on Uber eats. So coffee and Uber eats are probably
- 29:47Speaker 4: my worst worst money habits, and probably also online shopping.
- 29:52Speaker 4: I get can be really impositive when I like something,
- 29:55Speaker 4: I think that that happens more with the money. The
- 29:58Speaker 4: less money I have, I think I make more decisions
- 30:00Speaker 4: because I get into the mindset off I am actually
- 30:03Speaker 4: earning like nothing, and I'm probably gonna save like almost
- 30:06Speaker 4: nothing this month, so I might as well just buy
- 30:08Speaker 4: like the pair of pants that I want. It's like
- 30:12Speaker 4: when you can't go up much more. It's just it's
- 30:15Speaker 4: easy to go down a little, if that makes sense.
- 30:18Speaker 1: So what's twenty four and living off a scholarship actually
- 30:21Speaker 1: saving four? What's a big money goal?
- 30:23Speaker 4: I think for the next two years, I can see
- 30:25Speaker 4: my goals being really aligned to just making sure that
- 30:28Speaker 4: I travel as much as I can.
- 30:30Speaker 3: When I start.
- 30:31Speaker 4: Working full time, which will probably be in about two
- 30:34Speaker 4: or three years, that's when I can see my goals
- 30:36Speaker 4: changing adjusting a little bit. But I think only because
- 30:40Speaker 4: hopefully be able to travel at the same time as
- 30:42Speaker 4: aiming to aiming for a bigger goal, like I feel
- 30:45Speaker 4: like I should say buying a house, because everyone wants
- 30:48Speaker 4: things that you should want to buy a house. Maybe
- 30:50Speaker 4: it will be that in three years time. I can
- 30:52Speaker 4: also see myself not buying a house for like ten
- 30:55Speaker 4: fifteen years.
- 30:55Speaker 3: It's just not something that I feel.
- 30:57Speaker 4: I can feel like a lot of pressure in that
- 30:58Speaker 4: I should want to buy, but it's not something that
- 31:01Speaker 4: actually really want.
- 31:02Speaker 1: How would today's money diarist rate her own relationship with
- 31:05Speaker 1: money if we force her to give herself a grade?
- 31:07Speaker 4: Gosh, probably like a D minus because but I think
- 31:13Speaker 4: that D minus is mainly because what I want to
- 31:15Speaker 4: spend my money on is stuff that's not going to
- 31:18Speaker 4: actually make my account grow, like investment properties or I
- 31:23Speaker 4: actually have absolutely zero interest in investing my money in anything,
- 31:26Speaker 4: and my only goals are really about are full. I
- 31:30Speaker 4: like explurge on dinners and I gu out with friends,
- 31:32Speaker 4: and I don't think I think twice at the moment
- 31:34Speaker 4: about doing that. I think the seven ground that I
- 31:36Speaker 4: have in my savings account is purely for experiences, and
- 31:40Speaker 4: it's purely so that I can travel next year when
- 31:43Speaker 4: for like a longer time period than this year. And
- 31:46Speaker 4: it is purely because I think it's almost a safety
- 31:49Speaker 4: inn I'm worried that like one day I'll have to
- 31:52Speaker 4: one day I won't, we'll go up, or when I
- 31:54Speaker 4: have to pay my car insurance stuff. It's mainly for
- 31:57Speaker 4: stuff like that. It's not so much the seven ground
- 31:59Speaker 4: is not so much to one day invest in something
- 32:01Speaker 4: that's going to make my bank account grow more. So
- 32:04Speaker 4: I think that not having that money for sight is
- 32:06Speaker 4: why probably why would I would give myself like a
- 32:08Speaker 4: D minus.
- 32:10Speaker 1: So she said that the less money you have in
- 32:13Speaker 1: your savings, the more impulsive you are with buying, and
- 32:15Speaker 1: I totally relate to that.
- 32:17Speaker 3: I feel like, that's a really true thing, right, Yes,
- 32:20Speaker 3: money is really emotional, so I think that if we
- 32:23Speaker 3: don't have a lot of it and we're feeling quite
- 32:26Speaker 3: emotional about that, it's really easy to buy something to
- 32:29Speaker 3: make us feelings. What you're said, Yeah, which I'm really
- 32:33Speaker 3: good at, by the way, it's a skill.
- 32:35Speaker 1: So what is she doing well?
- 32:36Speaker 3: I think what she's doing really well is aligning her
- 32:39Speaker 3: spending to her values. So, you know, she mentioned that
- 32:42Speaker 3: she spends on coffee, and maybe that was her downfall,
- 32:44Speaker 3: but I think that if that's something she values, go
- 32:46Speaker 3: for it. Spend money on that make yourself feel good
- 32:48Speaker 3: in that aspect. Coffee at the end of the day,
- 32:51Speaker 3: is not spending seven hundred dollars a month on shopping.
- 32:54Speaker 3: It is, you know, a small win that makes you
- 32:56Speaker 3: feel good about yourself. And if that's her I guess
- 32:59Speaker 3: money fall, think that's a pretty good thing. But traveling, Yeah,
- 33:02Speaker 3: Also she said that she really likes traveling and that
- 33:04Speaker 3: her money is going towards that. So what she told
- 33:07Speaker 3: us was her values, and then she told us that
- 33:09Speaker 3: her values are being met with her income. And I
- 33:12Speaker 3: think that that's a really good thing in terms of
- 33:16Speaker 3: negative things though, dnus Like, I don't agree with that,
- 33:20Speaker 3: but I do agree with that in relation to bitcoin,
- 33:23Speaker 3: like that wasn't a great bitcoin, No, do not bring
- 33:26Speaker 3: back bitcoin. I think that that was a really good
- 33:29Speaker 3: example of how emotional investment works actually, And you'd think
- 33:35Speaker 3: that people in this industry would be really rational and
- 33:38Speaker 3: people in general would be really rational, but they aren't.
- 33:41Speaker 3: And the emotions of an investor, especially when they can
- 33:44Speaker 3: see people around them jumping on something, makes them, I guess,
- 33:49Speaker 3: have a little bit of fomo. Right, So like you go, oh,
- 33:51Speaker 3: my friend's got bitcoin, I should have bitcoin, but you
- 33:54Speaker 3: don't fully understand it. I have never recommended bitcoin to anyone,
- 33:59Speaker 3: nor have I pert just h myself, and I think
- 34:01Speaker 3: that that's probably telling in terms of how great of
- 34:04Speaker 3: an investment it is. Yes, a lot of money was
- 34:07Speaker 3: made in that investment, but the money that was made
- 34:10Speaker 3: was through people who knew about bitcoin before we were
- 34:13Speaker 3: talking about it at brunch. Yeah, so you know, if
- 34:15Speaker 3: you're talking about an investment over brunch with friends, I
- 34:19Speaker 3: think that that investment might have already had its time
- 34:22Speaker 3: to shine and it's not time to invest in that yet.
- 34:26Speaker 3: But we also really need to be having a think
- 34:28Speaker 3: about who we're taking investment advice from. Because if we're
- 34:32Speaker 3: sitting at brunch with a friend who said I invested
- 34:34Speaker 3: in this, and you decided that an investment decision was
- 34:37Speaker 3: a good one because your friend was in it, are
- 34:39Speaker 3: you really getting educated content? Are you really making decisions
- 34:43Speaker 3: that are best for you over the long term.
- 34:45Speaker 1: That's all we have time for today. Unfortunately, just before
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