Latest / She's On The Money / Ownership Structures of Investments Part B
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hello.
- 0:01Speaker 2: My name's Santasha Nabananga Bamblet. I'm a proud Yr the
- 0:05Speaker 2: Order Kerney Whalbury and a waddery woman. And before we
- 0:08Speaker 2: get started on She's on the Money podcast, I would
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- 0:23Speaker 2: as this podcast is about connecting, empowering, knowledge sharing and
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- 0:31Speaker 2: and lasting impact for tomorrow.
- 0:33Speaker 1: Let's get into it. She's on the Money.
- 0:36Speaker 3: She's on the Money. Hello and welcomed. She's on the
- 0:59Speaker 3: Money podcast for millennials who want financial freedom. My name
- 1:03Speaker 3: is Beck Sired and with me is Victoria Divine. Hello,
- 1:07Speaker 3: Divine Victoria.
- 1:08Speaker 1: I am very excited for this episode, but I'm not
- 1:11Speaker 1: sure that that feeling at the moment is mutual.
- 1:14Speaker 3: At the moment, you can see right through me, Yeah,
- 1:18Speaker 3: like you always can.
- 1:20Speaker 1: You're one of those people that definitely shouldn't be given
- 1:23Speaker 1: state secrets.
- 1:24Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true.
- 1:25Speaker 1: Like if a ransom man came and kidnapped you and said, Beck,
- 1:28Speaker 1: you need to tell us the code. You'd be like, oh,
- 1:30Speaker 1: the codes one, two, three, four, don't worries. Why did
- 1:33Speaker 1: you need to know? Again?
- 1:35Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly what.
- 1:37Speaker 1: Oh it was a secret. Ah.
- 1:39Speaker 3: So unfortunately my face and my body and my words
- 1:42Speaker 3: can't keep a secret.
- 1:43Speaker 1: But that's okay.
- 1:44Speaker 3: And my secret today is that I do not care
- 1:47Speaker 3: about ship structures, but I feel like I have a
- 1:50Speaker 3: feeling you'll be able to explain it in a way
- 1:52Speaker 3: that gets me excited.
- 1:53Speaker 1: So you reckon, I think.
- 1:54Speaker 3: So.
- 1:55Speaker 1: I know.
- 1:55Speaker 3: A couple of weeks ago, we were talking about this
- 1:58Speaker 3: and we decided to do a part be because there's
- 1:59Speaker 3: a lot of information that goes into this. We were
- 2:02Speaker 3: talking about a few things that sparked my interests and
- 2:04Speaker 3: seemed super important to chat about.
- 2:07Speaker 1: It did, and it's one of those things where I
- 2:10Speaker 1: was like, Okay, well I don't want to overwhelm people
- 2:13Speaker 1: too much, but also we'll get into it. But there's
- 2:16Speaker 1: like two different ownership structures that we wanted to talk about.
- 2:20Speaker 1: So there was like personal ownership structures, so the way
- 2:23Speaker 1: that you can set up your own personal ownership, and
- 2:26Speaker 1: then the ownership structures that exist inside the assets that
- 2:29Speaker 1: you purchase and those aren't really changeable. It's not like
- 2:32Speaker 1: you can go, oh well with an ETF, I want
- 2:34Speaker 1: the ownership structure to be different. No, no, no, that's just
- 2:37Speaker 1: how an ETF functions. Whereas with your trusts or your
- 2:41Speaker 1: sole trader or your individual shareholdings, like that's all your
- 2:45Speaker 1: choice and you can hold it however you want. Whereas
- 2:48Speaker 1: this is more what you need to consider when buying
- 2:51Speaker 1: shares and what that actually looks like. And I feel
- 2:53Speaker 1: like our community has said a number of times things like,
- 2:56Speaker 1: oh well, if it's not Chess sponsored, you shouldn't be
- 2:58Speaker 1: buying it, and I don't necessarily agree with that, So
- 3:01Speaker 1: we want to, I guess, break down all of those
- 3:03Speaker 1: things that I feel can be really overwhelming at the
- 3:07Speaker 1: start of an investment journey where you're like, hold on,
- 3:09Speaker 1: I was just going to buy an ETF. Well do
- 3:10Speaker 1: you mean to have to think about chess ownership structure
- 3:13Speaker 1: or what's this or what's that. That's what this episode
- 3:15Speaker 1: is about to hopefully give you a bit more independence,
- 3:18Speaker 1: but also I guess confidence to go no, no, no,
- 3:21Speaker 1: like I am where I am and I'm starting here
- 3:23Speaker 1: and that's okay, sure.
- 3:24Speaker 3: Okay, and all of those terms and everything. We will
- 3:26Speaker 3: discuss a little bit later in the episode, but yes,
- 3:29Speaker 3: we were speaking about this a couple of weeks ago.
- 3:31Speaker 3: Basically the different structures we could set up personally to
- 3:33Speaker 3: own shares, and you promise that you'd give us a
- 3:35Speaker 3: part B and explain the different ownership structures that shares,
- 3:39Speaker 3: ETFs and managed funds use so we can understand them better.
- 3:43Speaker 3: So I'm ready. Let's go all right, let's recap though,
- 3:46Speaker 3: and strip it right back to the start fee. What
- 3:49Speaker 3: exactly is a shit and why should I buy one?
- 3:51Speaker 2: That is?
- 3:52Speaker 1: Really? Really the start?
- 3:53Speaker 3: Hey?
- 3:53Speaker 1: I really like it. So shares also known as stocks
- 3:56Speaker 1: or equities, same stuff. People just call it different things.
- 4:00Speaker 1: Shares is a more of an Australian term, stocks is
- 4:03Speaker 1: a more American term. Equities is more of a finance
- 4:06Speaker 1: bro term. If people are like, oh, yeah, I've been
- 4:08Speaker 1: buying equities, Sit down, sir, you just bought a share.
- 4:11Speaker 1: But essentially all of those things represent ownership in a company.
- 4:15Speaker 1: So when you own a share, you're essentially becoming a
- 4:17Speaker 1: teeny tiny part owner of that company. My favorite way
- 4:20Speaker 1: of looking at it is kind of like a pie chart,
- 4:22Speaker 1: and you took a really tiny sliver of the pie
- 4:24Speaker 1: and now it's your slither of the pie. And what
- 4:27Speaker 1: that does is it actually entitles you to any of
- 4:30Speaker 1: the growth and profit of that company because you're a
- 4:34Speaker 1: little baby shareholder, like you're the owner of the company.
- 4:36Speaker 1: So why should you care about that? Well, owning shares
- 4:40Speaker 1: can potentially give you a chance to grow your money
- 4:42Speaker 1: as the company's value increases over time, and hopefully that
- 4:45Speaker 1: company is doing so well that they're paying dividends. A
- 4:48Speaker 1: dividend is a profit that is distributed to the shareholders
- 4:53Speaker 1: of a company, and you just reinvest that money. Compounding
- 4:57Speaker 1: interest is what that is called. And over time, money
- 5:00Speaker 1: that your money has made starts making more money and
- 5:02Speaker 1: that becomes a really attractive beck.
- 5:04Speaker 3: Wow, that's just a snowball effect. Yeah, that's investing to
- 5:07Speaker 3: a t god it Okay, okay, okay, So now let's
- 5:10Speaker 3: talk about ownership. You mentioned off air that it's simple
- 5:13Speaker 3: and there are two ways to own shares directly and indirectly.
- 5:16Speaker 1: I did. I also mentioned it on air, but like
- 5:18Speaker 1: off air, absolutely, I've been ranting about this off air,
- 5:22Speaker 1: like there is definitely a difference, and from my perspective,
- 5:25Speaker 1: you're on the money, babe. But simply put, direct ownership
- 5:29Speaker 1: is when you buy shares in individual companies, while indirect
- 5:33Speaker 1: ownership often involves investing in funds that own the shares
- 5:36Speaker 1: for you gossip. That's kind of like the difference between
- 5:39Speaker 1: a direct share, like going I always use NAB. I
- 5:42Speaker 1: don't know why, let's change it. You're going to buy
- 5:44Speaker 1: a Combank share individually and Bechsaed is the owner, whereas
- 5:49Speaker 1: you might go and buy an ETF or a managed
- 5:51Speaker 1: fund that holds Combank. Combank doesn't know that Beck is
- 5:55Speaker 1: the owner. What Combank knows is that ETF or that
- 5:58Speaker 1: fund you've put your money into, they own a significant
- 6:01Speaker 1: portion of that share. And that's how it's broken down.
- 6:04Speaker 1: It's just an ownership structure. And as we'll get into it,
- 6:08Speaker 1: we'll talk about I guess the pros and cons, but
- 6:11Speaker 1: they are kind of much of a muchness in this
- 6:13Speaker 1: day and age, like in theory. I do get that
- 6:16Speaker 1: I do want to know more about the pros and cons,
- 6:18Speaker 1: But why should I choose direct ownership? Okay, so I
- 6:21Speaker 1: guess to summarize it, pros and cons are good. Direct
- 6:24Speaker 1: ownership means that you actually get to choose the companies
- 6:26Speaker 1: that you get to invest in well. Indirect ownership offers
- 6:30Speaker 1: more diversification, being able to spread your investment across multiple
- 6:33Speaker 1: companies so you can diversify your risk. Direct ownership, as
- 6:37Speaker 1: I said, it kind of puts you more in the
- 6:40Speaker 1: controls seat. You get to choose which companies align with
- 6:43Speaker 1: your personal values and goals. Plus, if those companies perform well,
- 6:46Speaker 1: your returns can actually be quite rewarding.
- 6:49Speaker 3: Okay, and sorry if this is a really silly question,
- 6:53Speaker 3: but probably not.
- 6:54Speaker 1: This is She's on the money. No such things, dumb questions,
- 6:56Speaker 1: sit down on, Thank.
- 6:58Speaker 3: You very much, Victoria Albert. I want to know why
- 7:00Speaker 3: doesn't everyone just do that?
- 7:01Speaker 1: Why do you just do that?
- 7:02Speaker 3: Why do you just do that?
- 7:03Speaker 1: Sounds good right because you're like, especially the way I
- 7:06Speaker 1: just explained it, I'm like, you've got so much control,
- 7:08Speaker 1: you could make money.
- 7:09Speaker 2: Beck.
- 7:10Speaker 3: Usually cool.
- 7:11Speaker 1: Why doesn't everyone just exactly? Because there's actually a number
- 7:15Speaker 1: of downsides we need to consider as well. So with
- 7:17Speaker 1: great power comes great responsibility, Beck. So they say direct ownership,
- 7:22Speaker 1: it does come with higher risks because your returns are
- 7:25Speaker 1: directly tied to the performance of individual companies. It also
- 7:29Speaker 1: requires a whole heap more research and monitoring. To make
- 7:33Speaker 1: sure that you are as an investor making informed and
- 7:36Speaker 1: smart financial decisions. That kind of like onus, and the
- 7:40Speaker 1: responsibility is far more on you.
- 7:42Speaker 3: Ah, Okay, I got you. I got you. So I
- 7:46Speaker 3: mean indirect shares have less responsibility.
- 7:49Speaker 1: I mean, we could absolutely say it that way. That's
- 7:52Speaker 1: how I personally feel about it. Indirect ownership, so things
- 7:56Speaker 1: like managed funds or ETF they offer you far more diverseification.
- 8:01Speaker 1: So essentially what you're doing is when you invest in
- 8:03Speaker 1: a managed fund or in ETF, similar concepts. They're not identical.
- 8:07Speaker 1: We'll get into that, but essentially what you're doing is
- 8:10Speaker 1: investing in a basket of companies instead of just one
- 8:12Speaker 1: direct company, which reduces the impact of you know, if
- 8:16Speaker 1: one company isn't doing so well and you just went
- 8:18Speaker 1: invested in that one, like you're going to feel all
- 8:20Speaker 1: the losses, whereas if that one was one of two
- 8:23Speaker 1: hundred beck it's a lot more consistent, it's a lot
- 8:26Speaker 1: more level. You're getting more consistent returns. And to me
- 8:29Speaker 1: as somebody who likes a more indirect approach to investing,
- 8:33Speaker 1: because I think I've mentioned it before on the podcast,
- 8:36Speaker 1: I do own ETFs, right, and I would argue that
- 8:38Speaker 1: I don't want to say like one of the best investors.
- 8:41Speaker 1: That's not what I mean at all. But like I'm
- 8:43Speaker 1: very educated in this space. I used to do wholesale
- 8:45Speaker 1: direct investing for ultra high netwalth clients. Well, I know
- 8:49Speaker 1: how to do that. I don't want to do it.
- 8:51Speaker 1: It's so much responsibility. Beck I love an ETF like
- 8:54Speaker 1: it works for me and my personal situation because as
- 8:58Speaker 1: much as I adore investing, don't get me wrong, don't
- 9:01Speaker 1: tell anyone, but I do like to have a little
- 9:02Speaker 1: bit of a punt on the side. I do like
- 9:04Speaker 1: finding a share that makes sense to me and reading
- 9:06Speaker 1: annual reports and investing. But that's such a small part
- 9:09Speaker 1: of my investment portfolio because to me, that's fun. And
- 9:13Speaker 1: if we look at the statistics, we know that index
- 9:16Speaker 1: funds and edfs outperform investors who are trying to chase return.
- 9:21Speaker 1: So like me chasing return and picking my individual stocks,
- 9:25Speaker 1: it's not going to put me in a better position
- 9:26Speaker 1: long term, so gotcha. Essentially, it reduces the impact if
- 9:31Speaker 1: one of the companies that you pick doesn't perform well,
- 9:33Speaker 1: and professional fund managers they essentially handle all of that
- 9:36Speaker 1: for you. So say a company isn't performing that well
- 9:39Speaker 1: in your ETF and it's one of two hundred, they
- 9:41Speaker 1: might go, We're going to bullet it because they go
- 9:44Speaker 1: and do all the research and they look into it
- 9:46Speaker 1: and go, you know what, We're going to bullet that
- 9:48Speaker 1: bank and replace it with this other one. It means
- 9:50Speaker 1: that there's a more hands off approach and you kind
- 9:53Speaker 1: of have some professionals in the background. Okay.
- 9:55Speaker 3: Also, I just realized how different we are as people.
- 9:58Speaker 3: When you said punt. I was immediately like, slap at
- 10:01Speaker 3: the pokeys.
- 10:02Speaker 1: You know what, that's like what I meant. That's kind
- 10:04Speaker 1: of what I meant. But I do it on the
- 10:05Speaker 1: aox because sports that are not getting my money. In fact,
- 10:08Speaker 1: every time one of their ads comes up, which I
- 10:10Speaker 1: don't know why it does on my TikTok, I'm like,
- 10:14Speaker 1: get off my feet. Okay, interesting feat.
- 10:18Speaker 3: I respect it. Now let's do a quick recap. What
- 10:21Speaker 3: is an ETF for any managed fund and are they
- 10:23Speaker 3: harder to buy than shares?
- 10:24Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, that's a good question. Because I keep talking
- 10:27Speaker 1: about atfs and managed funds, we definitely should dive into it.
- 10:29Speaker 1: So a managed fund is also known as like mutual
- 10:33Speaker 1: funds or like a unit trust. These are investment vehicles
- 10:36Speaker 1: in which a fund manager they essentially take all your money,
- 10:39Speaker 1: pull it together from multiple different investors, and allocate those
- 10:43Speaker 1: funds to a diverse range of assets. These could include shares, bonds,
- 10:48Speaker 1: other securities that they want to hold. Managed funds are
- 10:51Speaker 1: typically overseen by what they call a professional funds manager,
- 10:55Speaker 1: so that one usually white dude, Like there are female
- 11:00Speaker 1: fund maashes that aren't many of them. This is obviously
- 11:02Speaker 1: something that the average investor might not do. You might
- 11:04Speaker 1: just go, oh, this one performs really well, Like you
- 11:07Speaker 1: might go to a particular managed fund and go, I
- 11:10Speaker 1: want to know more about it, but you just look
- 11:11Speaker 1: at the investments. I go and look at the investments,
- 11:14Speaker 1: and then I go look at the fund manager and go,
- 11:16Speaker 1: who is he? Where has he worked before? What are
- 11:19Speaker 1: his values? What are his morals? What's his tenure look like?
- 11:22Speaker 1: Has he been working with this particular company for a year?
- 11:24Speaker 1: Is he new? Has he been there for ten years?
- 11:27Speaker 1: I'm honestly, I can't be trusted, so I like to
- 11:30Speaker 1: do that. But essentially, this usual dude actively manages investment
- 11:37Speaker 1: decisions on behalf of the investors. So Becky you don't
- 11:39Speaker 1: have to make that decision because they're going to do
- 11:41Speaker 1: it for you. Sure, and the aim is to achieve
- 11:44Speaker 1: that fund's objectives. So that fund might have different objectives.
- 11:48Speaker 1: So a fund might have the objective to meet the
- 11:53Speaker 1: industry benchmark, So they might go, look, this fund is
- 11:56Speaker 1: just investing in the top two hundred different shares on
- 11:59Speaker 1: the AA and our plan is actually just to stay
- 12:02Speaker 1: on track with what the market does. Great, no worries.
- 12:05Speaker 1: There are funds out there that have the aim of
- 12:07Speaker 1: beating the benchmark. There are funds out there that have
- 12:11Speaker 1: the aim of doing lots of different things. Make sure
- 12:14Speaker 1: you know that aim before you get into a fund,
- 12:16Speaker 1: because it might not align with your value. Sure, if
- 12:19Speaker 1: you're someone who's like, you know what, I want a
- 12:21Speaker 1: really low touch ETFU managed fund, I'm just going to
- 12:25Speaker 1: pick one that has the top two hundred. Make sure
- 12:27Speaker 1: that the two hundred that they're picking are trying to
- 12:30Speaker 1: meet the benchmark, not exceed it, because that would be
- 12:33Speaker 1: a different risk profile. Again, because obviously if they're trying
- 12:37Speaker 1: to be way more aggressive, like that's going to be
- 12:39Speaker 1: a different situation than just like, oh, I just want
- 12:41Speaker 1: to track the average of the average so ETF's on
- 12:44Speaker 1: the other hand, they're a type of fund that tracks
- 12:47Speaker 1: the performance of a specific market index or sector. So
- 12:50Speaker 1: I'll give you an example, and ETF might track the
- 12:53Speaker 1: SMP five hundred, which is essentially the top five hundred
- 12:56Speaker 1: companies in America. I've heard about this one. Yeah, that's
- 12:58Speaker 1: really standard. Often when you're like watching the news, so
- 13:01Speaker 1: like you know, like the little scrolling bar at the
- 13:03Speaker 1: bottom of the news, the SMP will usually be reported there,
- 13:07Speaker 1: and a lot of people will be like, I don't
- 13:08Speaker 1: know what that means, And it might be like a
- 13:09Speaker 1: little green arrow going up or a little red arrow
- 13:11Speaker 1: going down, or the yellow bar that's telling you if
- 13:14Speaker 1: the SMP five hundred went up that time or down,
- 13:17Speaker 1: or if it just stayed on track. So they might
- 13:20Speaker 1: track the s and P five hundred, or they might
- 13:22Speaker 1: track like a technology sector and only invest in tech companies.
- 13:26Speaker 1: Just like managed funds ETFs, they pull all of your investors'
- 13:30Speaker 1: money together into one big bucket and they invest in
- 13:33Speaker 1: a diversified basket of assets. However, instead of being managed actively,
- 13:38Speaker 1: so there's no one like Grampooba who's like making decisions
- 13:41Speaker 1: every day making sure everything's tracking ETFs are usually passively managed,
- 13:46Speaker 1: and their aim is to replicate the performance of their
- 13:49Speaker 1: underlying index or sector. So like if it's the technology
- 13:53Speaker 1: sector that I mentioned just before, they just go, oh, well, Beck,
- 13:57Speaker 1: we've put together this list of twenty tech com The
- 14:00Speaker 1: plan is to just get an average return of what
- 14:02Speaker 1: the tech industry returns you. Okay, no worries. That makes sense. No,
- 14:08Speaker 1: they're not harder to buy. That was your question before. Yes,
- 14:11Speaker 1: they're not harder. They're not more complex. In fact, they
- 14:14Speaker 1: are identical to buying a share, Beck. They are listed
- 14:16Speaker 1: in exactly the same way on the AX. You buy
- 14:20Speaker 1: them on a share trading platform, exactly the same way
- 14:23Speaker 1: you would buy an individual share. There's nothing more complex
- 14:26Speaker 1: about the purchase of them.
- 14:27Speaker 3: Okay, that's good to know.
- 14:29Speaker 1: What you will find though, while I'm on this topic,
- 14:31Speaker 1: is that a managed funds fees are usually higher than
- 14:34Speaker 1: an ETF because managed funds are actively managed. Sure for
- 14:38Speaker 1: you need to pay for that active management, and ETF
- 14:42Speaker 1: is usually lower fees because there's more of a passive approach.
- 14:46Speaker 1: Does that make sense?
- 14:46Speaker 3: That totally makes sense.
- 14:47Speaker 1: So managed funds usually a bit more expensive, usually a
- 14:50Speaker 1: bit more aggressive, usually trying to like beat a benchmark
- 14:53Speaker 1: ETF's usually a basket of the top performing shares in Australia,
- 14:57Speaker 1: passively managed cheaper to purchase. Both are purchased on the
- 15:02Speaker 1: share trading platform of your choice, listed in exactly the
- 15:05Speaker 1: same way as a share would be cool. Does that
- 15:07Speaker 1: make sense.
- 15:08Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm really shocked actually that I comprehended all of that.
- 15:11Speaker 3: Oh my god, I did say thank you very much.
- 15:13Speaker 3: That was fantastic. Now, as we've been talking, I've been
- 15:16Speaker 3: writing down little bits and pieces, so I'm hearing terms
- 15:19Speaker 3: like hin SRN.
- 15:21Speaker 1: Ches's sexy. It's not the game, it's not the game
- 15:24Speaker 1: the game. Do you know how to play chess? Yeah?
- 15:26Speaker 3: Oh I love chess.
- 15:28Speaker 1: I'm not smart enough for chess. I only know how
- 15:30Speaker 1: to do chess through the share market.
- 15:32Speaker 2: Huh.
- 15:32Speaker 3: Well, you know, I think that's just as important.
- 15:34Speaker 1: I would say, maybe more important, Probably the more important,
- 15:37Speaker 1: unless you're like a competitive chess and you make lots
- 15:39Speaker 1: of money. Drew.
- 15:41Speaker 3: I'm fortunately I'm not at that level yet, but.
- 15:43Speaker 1: I never will be. Don't worry.
- 15:45Speaker 3: But no, I do think I need a little bit
- 15:47Speaker 3: of time to break it down. Let's go on a
- 15:48Speaker 3: really quick break and when we come back, we'll discuss
- 15:50Speaker 3: it all.
- 15:51Speaker 1: I'm excited.
- 15:51Speaker 3: Let's go cool, we have back fee.
- 15:58Speaker 1: I'm excited about this.
- 15:59Speaker 3: We just knocked out the quick game of chess.
- 16:01Speaker 1: Definitely did not it definitely did not say that such
- 16:03Speaker 1: thing as.
- 16:04Speaker 3: A quick game of chess Actually probably not. That's probably
- 16:07Speaker 3: never exist.
- 16:08Speaker 1: I reckon it does exist if it was like a
- 16:10Speaker 1: really smart chess person playing against me, because they just
- 16:13Speaker 1: go bam bam bam, Victoria, you're out.
- 16:15Speaker 3: Yes, okay, I.
- 16:17Speaker 1: Thought that chess was a like reflection of intelligence as well.
- 16:22Speaker 1: Yeah me too. I'd always be like, oh, if you
- 16:23Speaker 1: can play chess, you must be real smart. Yeah, and
- 16:26Speaker 1: I never could so yeah, I could always felt really
- 16:29Speaker 1: something self conscious about that.
- 16:31Speaker 3: Oh no, it's not the case of chess. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah.
- 16:36Speaker 1: Why you're drinks at the bar, you bring the chest
- 16:37Speaker 1: out perfect.
- 16:39Speaker 3: Now, I know exactly what I said before the break
- 16:41Speaker 3: was that we're going to go into a few different terms.
- 16:43Speaker 3: But I'm curious. I know that you were talking about
- 16:46Speaker 3: how like when you're watching the news, you see that
- 16:48Speaker 3: little bar at the bottom, and I always wanted to
- 16:52Speaker 3: know what the all odds are.
- 16:54Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, that is a good one. It's very similar
- 16:56Speaker 1: to the SMP so all odds if you want to
- 16:59Speaker 1: look it up on the ASX, which is the Australian
- 17:02Speaker 1: Stock Exchange, its code is x AO and so essentially
- 17:08Speaker 1: the XAO. It tracks the top or the largest five
- 17:12Speaker 1: hundred companies in Australia that are listed on the AX
- 17:16Speaker 1: according to their market capitalization, so basically how big they are,
- 17:20Speaker 1: and that will change over time, like if a company
- 17:23Speaker 1: decreases in value, they might drop off the All odds
- 17:25Speaker 1: and another company that's worth more comes on, So essentially
- 17:29Speaker 1: the top five hundred largest companies in Australia. It's commonly
- 17:32Speaker 1: referred to as the All ords because it's actually considered
- 17:36Speaker 1: the benchmark index for gauging the performance of the broader
- 17:40Speaker 1: Australian market. So the All Odds was originally calculated in
- 17:44Speaker 1: I think it was nineteen eighty with a starting level
- 17:47Speaker 1: of five hundred and represents close to ninety percent of
- 17:50Speaker 1: the AX, so it's not like a little bit of
- 17:53Speaker 1: the ASEX, it's a lot of the ASX and it's
- 17:56Speaker 1: essentially a good way of quickly checking in and seeing
- 18:01Speaker 1: how's the Australian market doing. If the all odds are
- 18:03Speaker 1: down right, it means that ninety percent of the ASX
- 18:08Speaker 1: is on its way down. There must be something going
- 18:10Speaker 1: on in the economy that is, you know, pushing it down.
- 18:14Speaker 1: If the all odds is up, it means the economy
- 18:16Speaker 1: is doing really well. So it's kind of like that
- 18:18Speaker 1: one number that's like a really good sense check or
- 18:21Speaker 1: a pulse check to see what's our market doing. Is
- 18:24Speaker 1: it okay? And it's a good idea to track this
- 18:27Speaker 1: if you're an investor, not because you're going to invest
- 18:30Speaker 1: in it, but because you want to have your finger
- 18:33Speaker 1: on the pulse. And it can be really jarring. Right
- 18:36Speaker 1: as a baby investor you've just started, You're like, oh,
- 18:38Speaker 1: my gosh, my whole portfolio is completely off. Do you
- 18:42Speaker 1: know what makes you feel a lot better? Looking at
- 18:43Speaker 1: the all odds and saying, ah, the broader economy is
- 18:47Speaker 1: a little bit off. Sure, this makes sense. So this
- 18:49Speaker 1: is one of those things. I'm in the middle of
- 18:51Speaker 1: writing my investing master class, and this is something that
- 18:54Speaker 1: you know, I asked the community a little while ago,
- 18:56Speaker 1: just in the Facebook group, because I haven't announced it
- 18:58Speaker 1: publicly that I'm doing that. Listening to this on the pod,
- 19:01Speaker 1: You're welcome, But we're writing an investing mask glass, and
- 19:04Speaker 1: I said, what do you want to know? Like, obviously
- 19:06Speaker 1: I can write everything that I know about the stock
- 19:09Speaker 1: market and what that actually looks like, how to do it?
- 19:12Speaker 1: What to start? And someone's question, I can't remember who
- 19:14Speaker 1: it was, so do apologize? It was my favorite question?
- 19:17Speaker 1: Yet She's like, what does it actually mean to do
- 19:20Speaker 1: your research? So I go back, you know, before investing,
- 19:23Speaker 1: do your research? What the heck can is invest in research?
- 19:27Speaker 1: How do I do that?
- 19:28Speaker 3: Great question?
- 19:29Speaker 1: So I've made a whole unit on how to quote
- 19:31Speaker 1: do your research and what to look at and what
- 19:33Speaker 1: can make you feel a bit more comfortable because investing
- 19:36Speaker 1: is one thing. Yes, I can show you how to
- 19:38Speaker 1: do your research to check if a share or a
- 19:41Speaker 1: ETF is a good investment for you personally and whether
- 19:44Speaker 1: you would choose it or not with the right you know,
- 19:46Speaker 1: technology behind it. Sure, but also like what about a
- 19:49Speaker 1: bit of a sense check? Beck, Like, what if you're
- 19:52Speaker 1: a bit stressed, how do I do a bit of
- 19:54Speaker 1: research to make sure that I can just still feel
- 19:56Speaker 1: a little bit comfy in the market? The all odds
- 19:58Speaker 1: is something that I would look at first to go
- 20:01Speaker 1: what's the broader economy doing If that's off, what makes
- 20:04Speaker 1: sense that your shares are off? Beck because the whole
- 20:07Speaker 1: economy is a bit messed up, right now, gotcha? That
- 20:10Speaker 1: might make you feel a bit more comfortable. But yeah,
- 20:12Speaker 1: the all odds is actually really important, and I'm glad
- 20:14Speaker 1: you brought it up.
- 20:15Speaker 3: Oh great, I've shocked that I finally figured out what
- 20:17Speaker 3: that was, because I feel like it's something that we
- 20:19Speaker 3: joke about in like high school. The all odds are.
- 20:22Speaker 1: You don't know what it means, but essentially TLDR it's
- 20:25Speaker 1: the top five hundred biggest companies in Australia and it's
- 20:29Speaker 1: a benchmark to see are they doing well? Are they
- 20:32Speaker 1: not doing well? It's why you'll see the all odds.
- 20:35Speaker 1: The numbers aren't massive when they move right. It's always
- 20:38Speaker 1: like the all lords are ze point one percent, right,
- 20:40Speaker 1: like you never hear twelve percent. Yeah, because that's five
- 20:43Speaker 1: hundred companies and the average is going to have to
- 20:47Speaker 1: be pretty significant to have a bigger than a you know,
- 20:50Speaker 1: a one or two percent jump, gotcha. But it'll always
- 20:53Speaker 1: be small amounts and it's just like slow fluctuations. And
- 20:56Speaker 1: then if you look at it over the broader, like
- 20:58Speaker 1: you know, scale of time, because we say on the
- 21:00Speaker 1: pod lame that it's my favorite saying when in doubt,
- 21:03Speaker 1: zoom out, like look at the bigger picture back. You
- 21:06Speaker 1: might see that the all lords over time are just
- 21:08Speaker 1: slowly tracking upwards. That's reflective of a really healthy market.
- 21:12Speaker 1: Or you might see it tracking downwards, like going into COVID,
- 21:15Speaker 1: we saw the all lords track downwards. Going into any
- 21:18Speaker 1: type of recession, we see it track downwards, and you
- 21:21Speaker 1: can see how fast or slow that is and go, oh,
- 21:24Speaker 1: that's happening pretty quickly or that's actually really slow. It's
- 21:27Speaker 1: interesting once you know what it is. Yeah, Okay, I
- 21:29Speaker 1: won't go on and on about it because I totally
- 21:31Speaker 1: go it.
- 21:32Speaker 3: And I could totally listen all day, but we do
- 21:35Speaker 3: full of it an episode to get to all, right,
- 21:40Speaker 3: what on Earth is h SRN and chess? Are these
- 21:46Speaker 3: online games?
- 21:48Speaker 1: Online game? Let's do one at a time. Can I
- 21:51Speaker 1: break it up? Because I'm not gonna answer all three
- 21:53Speaker 1: at one time because I think that would be irresponsible.
- 21:56Speaker 1: And while my job often is to completely overwhelm you,
- 22:00Speaker 1: it's funny someone slid into my DMS and the like utoria,
- 22:02Speaker 1: this is so embarrassing, But sometimes I have to listen
- 22:04Speaker 1: to your episodes three times to get them. It's not
- 22:07Speaker 1: embarrassing embarrassing, that's smart. Yeah, it is like do you
- 22:10Speaker 1: know how much research I often do on these episodes
- 22:13Speaker 1: tojam pack them full of information that hopefully you get. Yes,
- 22:17Speaker 1: I can't expect you to walk away. It's like going
- 22:19Speaker 1: to a lecture. Did you listen?
- 22:20Speaker 3: Probably not watch it three, four, five, six, seven times?
- 22:23Speaker 1: Yeah, and on like double speed, Yeah, and not spend
- 22:27Speaker 1: that whole time doing it. But it is not embarrassing
- 22:29Speaker 1: to have to go back and listen to it again.
- 22:30Speaker 1: In fact, hard to watch a Barbie movie three times
- 22:33Speaker 1: before I got everything in it, Yeah, exactly, So like
- 22:36Speaker 1: the same should be true for my podcast because like
- 22:38Speaker 1: they're basically on part with a Barbie movie. Right, Oh yeah,
- 22:41Speaker 1: oh absolutely. All right, So let's start with chess, okay,
- 22:45Speaker 1: because it sounds the most like a game, and I
- 22:47Speaker 1: feel like it's most spoken about in our community as well.
- 22:50Speaker 1: So put simply, chess is clearing house electronic subregistered system,
- 22:55Speaker 1: oh sexy. So essentially that means that the AX is
- 23:02Speaker 1: just keeping a list of who owns what chess. That's
- 23:04Speaker 1: what chess means. Okay, So it's the clearing house electronic
- 23:09Speaker 1: subregister system. It's just registering everybody who owns shares in
- 23:14Speaker 1: the ASEX. So if you go and purchase a share
- 23:16Speaker 1: on the ASEX, they want to keep track of everybody.
- 23:19Speaker 1: That's what CHESS does. So if your shares are quote
- 23:22Speaker 1: Chess sponsored, it means that when you buy or sell
- 23:25Speaker 1: shares on the ASEX, it has a record of you
- 23:27Speaker 1: owning the shares directly or not. And this is the
- 23:30Speaker 1: main way in Australia that people buy and sell shares
- 23:33Speaker 1: because they go to a broker, They might go to
- 23:35Speaker 1: an online platform purchase a share and then they will
- 23:39Speaker 1: get a whole heave of paperwork, usually from computer share
- 23:42Speaker 1: that says you now own this, here's your chest number,
- 23:44Speaker 1: here's this, here's that, and it's just tracking that you're
- 23:47Speaker 1: the actual underlying owner of that asset. Just be aware
- 23:52Speaker 1: when it comes to choosing a broker for buying and
- 23:55Speaker 1: selling these because some brokers are and some brokers aren't
- 23:58Speaker 1: Chess sponsored. Don't mean they're worse or different. It's just
- 24:01Speaker 1: something that you need to understand and we'll obviously get
- 24:04Speaker 1: into those different arrangements soon. Okay, So I'm not going
- 24:08Speaker 1: to go on and on about it now because I
- 24:09Speaker 1: know I've got a round coming soon.
- 24:11Speaker 3: Yeah, you can feel it bubbling up. Okay, So this
- 24:15Speaker 3: is if you're I'm assuming the owner of the share.
- 24:19Speaker 3: But what if you're in an ETF or a managed fund?
- 24:22Speaker 3: Will used to be chess sponsored? Does that?
- 24:25Speaker 1: So that's where remember at the start of the episode,
- 24:27Speaker 1: I said there's two ways to hold shares. There's indirect
- 24:29Speaker 1: and direct. Yes, So a chess sponsor, if it is
- 24:32Speaker 1: in your name, that would be direct.
- 24:34Speaker 3: Gotcha.
- 24:34Speaker 1: ETFs and managed funds are essentially indirect, and that means
- 24:38Speaker 1: you are absolutely correct, Beck. If your shares are chess
- 24:41Speaker 1: ASX sponsored, it means that you personally own them directly,
- 24:45Speaker 1: so like the name on the certificate would say becksayed,
- 24:49Speaker 1: rather than someone else holding them on your behalf like
- 24:52Speaker 1: an ETF or a managed fund in the pool that
- 24:54Speaker 1: we were talking about before, So you would receive dividends
- 24:57Speaker 1: directly if you're the underlying owner of them. So that's
- 25:00Speaker 1: essentially the profit the company pays to its owners, i e.
- 25:03Speaker 2: You and you.
- 25:04Speaker 1: Actually, if you're the underlying direct owner, you have voting rights.
- 25:08Speaker 1: Not many people care about their voting rights, and let's
- 25:11Speaker 1: be honest, if you only own one share your voting rights,
- 25:15Speaker 1: they're not going to have the biggest influence. But that's okay.
- 25:17Speaker 1: Some people really really want to have them. Is it
- 25:20Speaker 1: bad that you don't own them directly? Is the next question.
- 25:23Speaker 1: I think people are probably thinking no, not necessarily. Some
- 25:27Speaker 1: people are honestly, wildly passionate about this. You might see
- 25:30Speaker 1: it all over the internet if you are someone like
- 25:33Speaker 1: me who is this embarrassing. Might be troll's reddit forums
- 25:37Speaker 1: about like what shares are being bought and sold, in
- 25:39Speaker 1: people's opinions on different ETFs, like I'm gonna need to
- 25:42Speaker 1: know all of that information, right, But a lot of
- 25:45Speaker 1: people will be like, it's terrible because it's not chess
- 25:47Speaker 1: sponsored and you're not the direct owner of it. Rare anyway,
- 25:50Speaker 1: I could not care less. But some people, as I said,
- 25:53Speaker 1: are wildly passionate about it. But as someone who does
- 25:56Speaker 1: arguably know the industry very well and invests in ETFs
- 26:00Speaker 1: and managed funds directly, it doesn't worry me because all
- 26:03Speaker 1: my investments are still safe and are still secure, and
- 26:07Speaker 1: essentially what my shares in my ETF and managed funds
- 26:10Speaker 1: are operating under is what's called a custodian model. So
- 26:14Speaker 1: that all sounds very complex, you could say, But a
- 26:18Speaker 1: custodian model essentially means that someone else is currently holding
- 26:22Speaker 1: that share certificate on my behalf. It's all above board.
- 26:25Speaker 1: If either of those companies, like let's say the share
- 26:28Speaker 1: trading platform that I have picked, operates under a custodian model,
- 26:33Speaker 1: which means that the etf I board or even sometimes
- 26:35Speaker 1: the share that I buy isn't going to be in
- 26:38Speaker 1: my direct name. It's under this custodian model. You might go,
- 26:40Speaker 1: but what if they go bankrupt, Victoria, what if they
- 26:43Speaker 1: lose all their money?
- 26:44Speaker 3: True?
- 26:45Speaker 1: Are you going to lose your shares back?
- 26:46Speaker 3: It's a good question.
- 26:47Speaker 1: You're not, because it's held under a custodian model, which
- 26:50Speaker 1: means that the owners of that company that you're investing with,
- 26:53Speaker 1: they don't actually have access to that. They can't just
- 26:55Speaker 1: transfer it to their name. Custodian means they're the custodians
- 26:59Speaker 1: of it, not the the lying owner. The share owners are,
- 27:03Speaker 1: and essentially the owner of the share. It isn't as
- 27:05Speaker 1: clear as if it was responsored, but there still is
- 27:08Speaker 1: a direct line of working that out, and that company
- 27:12Speaker 1: can't just yeed off with your shares, Like, you're not
- 27:14Speaker 1: going to lose out in that circumstance. The only way
- 27:17Speaker 1: you would lose out, and you know there might be
- 27:19Speaker 1: an issue with your share is if your share actually
- 27:21Speaker 1: loses value, but it wouldn't have anything to do with
- 27:23Speaker 1: your broker. However, in that custodian model, your shares are
- 27:28Speaker 1: actually held within a trust. So remember in the first
- 27:30Speaker 1: episode we were talking about trusts and direct ownership. Companies
- 27:34Speaker 1: can set up trusts to hold their client's assets. So
- 27:38Speaker 1: my shares are currently being held in a trust by
- 27:41Speaker 1: my custodian, which is my broker, and they're not going
- 27:44Speaker 1: to go missing if that company goes bankrupt or they
- 27:46Speaker 1: shut down. So you're okay. And I think a lot
- 27:49Speaker 1: of people get really worried about that because they're like, oh,
- 27:51Speaker 1: but someone's going to, you know, take off with my
- 27:53Speaker 1: shares because they've got my share certificate and I'm like,
- 27:56Speaker 1: not so quick, Like, that's not how it works.
- 27:58Speaker 3: Okay, how it works.
- 28:00Speaker 1: So you're safer than you might think you are.
- 28:02Speaker 3: That's good to know. It's always good to be safer
- 28:04Speaker 3: than you think.
- 28:05Speaker 1: Exactly.
- 28:06Speaker 3: What about HIN and SRN, are they equally.
- 28:10Speaker 1: Like I'm overloading this episode, but like, I feel like
- 28:12Speaker 1: this all needs to go in the same episode, so
- 28:14Speaker 1: I do apologize, but no, thankfully. So historically shareholders, you
- 28:19Speaker 1: actually would have received like a share certificate, like a
- 28:21Speaker 1: legit one in the mail to prove that you are
- 28:24Speaker 1: the underlying owner of that asset. You can still receive
- 28:27Speaker 1: those if you really want to. I get mine by email.
- 28:30Speaker 1: Shares are now automatically held digitally on what's called a
- 28:34Speaker 1: hi N if you go with a stockbroker, So a HIN.
- 28:38Speaker 1: It's actually very simple. It means hold up identification number. Again.
- 28:43Speaker 1: It's just a number that tracks who owns what and
- 28:46Speaker 1: when and where, which is essentially like an ID card
- 28:49Speaker 1: or an ID number for your shares. It's not super complex.
- 28:52Speaker 1: You don't need to be super across it. Just know
- 28:54Speaker 1: that each time you would buy, you would be, you know,
- 28:57Speaker 1: given a HIN. It's essentially just to track your shares
- 29:00Speaker 1: so the ASEX knows who owns what and when and where.
- 29:02Speaker 1: M mmm, beck. You also asked about an SRN, So
- 29:06Speaker 1: you're gonna have an SRN if you buy shares with
- 29:09Speaker 1: the registry soon. How I said before, you get a
- 29:12Speaker 1: HINT if you go with a stockbroker. If you go
- 29:14Speaker 1: directly with the registry, you're actually gonna get an SRN,
- 29:17Speaker 1: which stands for Security Reference number. Again just another ID number, okay,
- 29:24Speaker 1: which is unique to each company's shares that you own.
- 29:28Speaker 1: So both of which are honestly just acronyms for numbers
- 29:30Speaker 1: you're gonna get when you register your investments. So no
- 29:33Speaker 1: matter which way your shares are held, you remain ultimately
- 29:37Speaker 1: the beneficial owner even if the stockbroker or the registry
- 29:41Speaker 1: goes bankrupt. Oh so you're okay, you safe safe. These
- 29:45Speaker 1: are tracking numbers, So if you get them in the mail,
- 29:47Speaker 1: or you get them in your emails, save them somewhere important,
- 29:50Speaker 1: in a folder in your emails, or like my favorite,
- 29:53Speaker 1: I don't care paper in my house, I'm gonna lose it.
- 29:55Speaker 1: But you know what if I don't lose pieces of
- 29:58Speaker 1: paper in my house, I I have been on the
- 30:00Speaker 1: phone and I flip them over and I draw all
- 30:02Speaker 1: over us lists and then I rip them up like
- 30:04Speaker 1: it is not a good idea. So I actually take
- 30:07Speaker 1: photos of all of mine and just save them in
- 30:08Speaker 1: an album in my phone, or I email them to myself.
- 30:11Speaker 1: But definitely keep track of these numbers. Because ultimately they
- 30:14Speaker 1: are important, but you're not going to use them every
- 30:16Speaker 1: day when you're doing share trading.
- 30:19Speaker 3: Great idea, d I don't know if you do the
- 30:21Speaker 3: same thing as I take photos. I send it to
- 30:23Speaker 3: myself and I put like a trillion different keywords in
- 30:27Speaker 3: the email.
- 30:27Speaker 1: I'm like, hi, n identification number for XYZ share share trading,
- 30:32Speaker 1: stop broking investment account, like exactly, because what if I
- 30:37Speaker 1: forget what to google email?
- 30:39Speaker 3: What future are me going to think about?
- 30:41Speaker 1: And I can't trust future me. I have proven to
- 30:44Speaker 1: myself I can't be trusted. I agree.
- 30:46Speaker 3: Okay, so I just want to quickly wrap my head
- 30:48Speaker 3: around this all because it is a lot.
- 30:50Speaker 1: It is a lot. I'm sorry, but I okay, you've
- 30:53Speaker 1: gotten across it really quickly.
- 30:54Speaker 3: Thank you so much. I mean, there might be gaps
- 30:56Speaker 3: in my knowledge.
- 30:57Speaker 1: But so the episode was so that we listen to it.
- 31:01Speaker 3: To us exactly, if I buy shares directly in my
- 31:05Speaker 3: own name, my own name will be listed down on
- 31:08Speaker 3: the share register. Yeah, I'll be able to buy and
- 31:10Speaker 3: sell individual shares whenever I want. My dividends will be
- 31:13Speaker 3: paid directly to me, and I have voting rights.
- 31:16Speaker 1: WHOA, Yes, exactly, you're the money.
- 31:19Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
- 31:20Speaker 1: You're on the money.
- 31:21Speaker 3: That is so sick. Okay, So while I'm at it,
- 31:24Speaker 3: when you indirectly invest, yes, the name on the share
- 31:28Speaker 3: register is the ETF or the managed funds company. Yes,
- 31:31Speaker 3: not my name, not your name, but they hold the
- 31:33Speaker 3: assets on my behalf and manage what the ETF or
- 31:36Speaker 3: managed fund is made up of. So I don't have
- 31:38Speaker 3: to worry about buying and selling, Yes, but I do.
- 31:41Speaker 3: I still get my dividends though. What happens if the
- 31:43Speaker 3: share makes a profit. Oh that's a good question. I
- 31:46Speaker 3: like that you're thinking about this thing now. It makes
- 31:48Speaker 3: me so proud. I'm like, oh, so you're just worried
- 31:50Speaker 3: about where a dividends is going to go?
- 31:51Speaker 1: Thank you something the profit still goes to you, do
- 31:55Speaker 1: not worry, okay. So it will just be filtered directly
- 31:58Speaker 1: through your et or managed fund. It does get distributed
- 32:02Speaker 1: in a bit of a different way, but it's still
- 32:05Speaker 1: there for you. You are not missing out. Often when it
- 32:08Speaker 1: comes back in the fees that you've agreed to pay
- 32:11Speaker 1: for your ETF or managed fund to get taken out
- 32:13Speaker 1: of that amount and then it gets distributed to you
- 32:16Speaker 1: or through your etfor managed fund. You might have picked
- 32:19Speaker 1: what's called a dividend reinvestment plan, which means they never
- 32:22Speaker 1: give you the cash. They actually just reinvest it back
- 32:25Speaker 1: into the same ETF for you. So it's all automated,
- 32:28Speaker 1: which can be really helpful because if you're planning to
- 32:31Speaker 1: invest over the long term and you own a share,
- 32:34Speaker 1: you know, and let's pretend it paid you ten dollars
- 32:36Speaker 1: this year, you don't want that ten dollars this year.
- 32:38Speaker 1: You want it reinvested into the share market so that
- 32:41Speaker 1: it can grow over time and then when you reach
- 32:43Speaker 1: retirement you can make use of it. But that's what
- 32:45Speaker 1: I mean when I say the money that your money
- 32:47Speaker 1: makes makes money is because the money that your money
- 32:50Speaker 1: made gets reinvested, and then that money makes money. So
- 32:53Speaker 1: that ten dollars that gets reinvested, then you know, might
- 32:57Speaker 1: make a dollar next year, and then that dollar makes
- 32:59Speaker 1: money and it just compounds from there. Okay, So it
- 33:03Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily mean that you're missing out, but it might
- 33:05Speaker 1: get filtered through a different way, but those profits are
- 33:08Speaker 1: still yours. And like, for example, if Combank says that
- 33:11Speaker 1: they're paying a dividend to investors, that is still going
- 33:14Speaker 1: to come to you, sure you don't miss out?
- 33:16Speaker 3: Good to know, very good to know.
- 33:18Speaker 1: Don't miss out, don't miss out. And arguably the most
- 33:21Speaker 1: important thing about investing is making money. So like, I'm
- 33:24Speaker 1: not going to let you miss out. Oh joking, I'd
- 33:26Speaker 1: be like, don't do that. That's terrible. You won't get paid.
- 33:28Speaker 1: That would be silly, that would be so dumb.
- 33:31Speaker 3: I trust that you're not done with teaching, but I
- 33:33Speaker 3: probably amn you're done.
- 33:35Speaker 1: Okay, don't worry.
- 33:37Speaker 3: But before we wrap up, how do we pick which
- 33:39Speaker 3: option works best for us?
- 33:40Speaker 1: Okay? So this is a good question, but also a
- 33:43Speaker 1: really personal question because like, I can't tell you what's
- 33:46Speaker 1: going to work best for you. From my perspective, it's
- 33:49Speaker 1: really important to consider your goals and your risk tolerance
- 33:52Speaker 1: and your lifestyle. Like some people might want to be
- 33:55Speaker 1: individual share traders and consistently, you know, rebalance their own
- 33:59Speaker 1: portfolios and manager that way. If your hands on and
- 34:02Speaker 1: you want to pick your own companies, like direct ownership
- 34:04Speaker 1: might actually be your own style, Beck, But if you're
- 34:07Speaker 1: looking for diversification, maybe a little less involvement, maybe a
- 34:12Speaker 1: little less risk. Because when you diversify more, Beck, you're
- 34:15Speaker 1: lowering your risk so the more diversification you have, the
- 34:18Speaker 1: more risk you have. Maybe indirect ownership is a better
- 34:21Speaker 1: fit because you go, well, I can get instant diversification
- 34:25Speaker 1: less involvement if I go and buy a top two
- 34:28Speaker 1: hundred asx ETF, And that might make you really comfortable.
- 34:33Speaker 1: But again, you might be widely passionate about picking your
- 34:35Speaker 1: own shares, or maybe you don't want the top two hundred,
- 34:38Speaker 1: or maybe you just want a bit more control. So
- 34:40Speaker 1: it's really going to depend on who you are and
- 34:42Speaker 1: what you do. And as I've said, you know this
- 34:45Speaker 1: is what I do, but I do both. I'm not
- 34:48Speaker 1: saying that both is right for you. I do both
- 34:50Speaker 1: because let's be honest. Direct share investment for me is
- 34:53Speaker 1: me having a good time in the share market. I
- 34:56Speaker 1: love it, Beck, It's so lame, Like I love not
- 34:59Speaker 1: my research. I love looking at new companies and what
- 35:02Speaker 1: they are made up of, and what their board looks like,
- 35:05Speaker 1: and what their CEO has done historically and how they've performed.
- 35:08Speaker 1: That is not everybody's cup of tea. Everybody else in
- 35:11Speaker 1: our community, or a lot of people in our community
- 35:14Speaker 1: might turn around and be like, v we hear you,
- 35:17Speaker 1: we see you, We understand the importance of investing. We
- 35:21Speaker 1: know that to create financial freedom, we want to invest.
- 35:25Speaker 1: But I just want to send some money into an
- 35:28Speaker 1: investment every month and not think about it again. Ye,
- 35:30Speaker 1: you're a psychopath. I am not going to be looking
- 35:33Speaker 1: at the annual reports of each and every single company,
- 35:37Speaker 1: because one, I don't comprehend them, but I also just
- 35:40Speaker 1: don't care. That's fair and that's so fair. So I
- 35:43Speaker 1: think that understanding the difference between indirect and direct investing
- 35:47Speaker 1: is going to be a really personal decision. But I
- 35:49Speaker 1: think the crux of this episode is helping you to
- 35:52Speaker 1: understand that when we talk about HIN or SRN or chess,
- 35:57Speaker 1: those things are not as important as a lot of people,
- 36:03Speaker 1: you know, jump up and down about and say, Oh,
- 36:05Speaker 1: it's so important. That's chess sponsors, so you have direct control.
- 36:09Speaker 1: I personally don't need direct control. What I want is
- 36:12Speaker 1: to know that if everything goes south, my investment is
- 36:14Speaker 1: going to be safe, irrespective of who was the custodian
- 36:18Speaker 1: of that. And I know I'm safe, so I'm fine.
- 36:21Speaker 1: And I think that a lot of people in our
- 36:22Speaker 1: community wanted to hear that, because you go, well, if
- 36:25Speaker 1: it's not chess sponsored maybe it's less secure, and that's
- 36:28Speaker 1: not the case at all. So that's where I'm at.
- 36:30Speaker 1: But it's going to be a personal decision, not a
- 36:33Speaker 1: decision that I can make for you, because I don't
- 36:35Speaker 1: know you well enough. I wish I did, so let's
- 36:37Speaker 1: hang out.
- 36:39Speaker 3: I guess, Like, lastly, are there any regulations we need
- 36:41Speaker 3: to be aware of?
- 36:42Speaker 1: A look at you with your questions, all right, So
- 36:44Speaker 1: owning shares obviously comes with lots of different rules and regulations.
- 36:48Speaker 1: But don't worry. We won't dive right now because I
- 36:51Speaker 1: really want to go home now into the technicalities of them.
- 36:55Speaker 1: But just know that direct ownership, as we've been talking
- 36:59Speaker 1: about it, means that you have to stay informed and
- 37:02Speaker 1: you have to actively manage your investments, so like you've
- 37:04Speaker 1: got to be across it. You've got to do all
- 37:06Speaker 1: the reporting. Yourself managed options like a managed fund or
- 37:11Speaker 1: an ETF, they actually handle most of the regulation for you.
- 37:15Speaker 1: So that's kind of an attractive thing. We won't Maybe
- 37:17Speaker 1: I'll do a whole episode one day on regulation, but
- 37:20Speaker 1: it won't be that sexy. Sure, maybe will like do
- 37:22Speaker 1: it as a bonus for people who are just like me,
- 37:24Speaker 1: because I know you will not give two flying fruit bats.
- 37:28Speaker 1: I've already yeah, you're like, no, I don't even know
- 37:30Speaker 1: why I asked you the I actually have done now,
- 37:33Speaker 1: But to make sure everyone's on the same.
- 37:34Speaker 3: Page, just give us a really quick overview of one
- 37:38Speaker 3: more over, you're like, really drill in envy?
- 37:41Speaker 2: All right.
- 37:42Speaker 1: So, obviously today we have covered the basics of direct
- 37:45Speaker 1: and indirect ownership of shares. We have talked about direct
- 37:49Speaker 1: ownership when it comes to investing directly in shares on
- 37:52Speaker 1: the AX or any stock exchange, to be honest, and
- 37:55Speaker 1: we've talked about indirect ownership through managed funds and ETFs. Obviously,
- 38:00Speaker 1: these are not the only asset classes that exist in
- 38:02Speaker 1: the world. These are just two really good examples of
- 38:05Speaker 1: how these work. I think we need to also remember
- 38:08Speaker 1: there's no such thing as a one size fits all approach,
- 38:11Speaker 1: and as I said before, choose the method that aligns
- 38:14Speaker 1: to your goals and your values, not just what someone
- 38:16Speaker 1: on a Reddit thread said was the most important thing. Honestly,
- 38:20Speaker 1: great advice. Don't take Reddit as gospel.
- 38:23Speaker 3: I'll have to remember that you done done, I'm done done.
- 38:27Speaker 1: Oh, I think we deserve some cheeky mickeyde's.
- 38:30Speaker 3: Let's do it. Let's go.
- 38:31Speaker 1: We have a good week, guys.
- 38:32Speaker 4: We love you.
- 38:32Speaker 3: Bye bye, guys.
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