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Chapter 1: What is the overview of investing in Australia?
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Chapter 2: What does it mean to invest for the long term?
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Owen, welcome back to the Australian Finance Podcast. Thanks, Kate. It's good to be here. What are we talking about in today's episode? Well, our plan today is to tackle the massive topic of investing and sort of really overview what is investing, what's not investing, some of the key investment options, and a little bit about using investment to build up a diversified portfolio. Cool.
And this continues on from the last episode we did, which was saving versus investing. Yep. This is another kind of broad overview, right?
Chapter 3: How can you reset your short-term investment mindset?
Mm-hmm.
But we're going to touch on some things and then in the next episodes, we'll drill into each one of those. Cool. Okay. So do we know what investing is? What's investing? Yeah, so I guess it's a massive topic because you're essentially putting your money at risk to hopefully gain a greater amount over a long period of time.
I guess sometimes people are investing for a short period of time, but the way I invest is generally for the long time. Yep, you and me both. I think we talked about this last episode, but we said that maybe when your timeframe is say less than six months or less than a year, it's more in that realm of speculation.
But we'll get to why that is the case in just a moment when we talk about risk profiles. When people approach investing, what is one thing that you think they should do to, I suppose, reset their tendencies to think short term? What's a tool that they can use to reset that? Yeah, I guess the first thing to think about is what is your goal for investing and why are you doing it?
If it's just to make a quick buck, then it's probably not the right way to approach it.
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Chapter 4: What is the significance of knowing your investment goals?
You've really got to work, is it a 10-year timeframe to buy your house? Are you investing for retirement? Are you investing so you can start a business down the track?
Once you work out the reasons behind why you're investing and then what timeframe, because that's really important in investing because different asset classes that we'll talk on later on have different recommended timeframes so you can write out the volatility of the market. So once you know your goals, behind why you're investing and then start to think about what time frame.
And that's a really good place to get started. So you don't just end up selling as soon as something starts to look a bit scary and end up losing money. Yeah, that's a good one. I think I've got, you know,
I've read, I don't know how many finance books, but I've got this kind of beef with financial goals because they get like this label and then they always sound like they're really far away and they're really boring. But I think a really interesting way that I think about it is in terms of systems.
So I find that the people that have the most effective systems and what I mean by that is instead of thinking about a thing that's like five years away and is just to break it down to the smallest possible timeframe and then think about how you can implement that day-to-day. So I'll give you an example.
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Chapter 5: What are the different types of investment options available?
So someone might say, you know, I want a million dollars in 10 years, right? It's pretty ambitious. But then you can work out and you can go backwards from that and you can say, well, if I get this return and I have this amount of savings, here's how I can get there. Mm-hmm.
And it becomes, once you break it down to a smaller and smaller amount, you begin to realize that it's really just like one-tenth of something or like I'm going to save 20% and my financial goal will take care of itself. And that's just the way I think about it.
It's like when you go to the gym, if you think about going to the gym for three months, how many people say, I'm going to go to the gym for three months and then they fail versus the person that just
actually gets up and just goes and just get started that's right and it's about having habits and systems in place so that you just do it and i think when you think about goals when i think about goals i always end up breaking them like new year's resolutions it's better to just put your head down and just do it yeah and it's just having about a system having a system and one way to think about it anyway that's like a i could talk about the psychology behind saving for a very long time
One thing that you've written in the show notes here, which is really important, you say it's your money, so you've got to look after it. And this is especially true when it comes to investing, right? Because people tend to think that, you know, I'll just have a punt here or a punt there. But you end up doing 10 or 20 punts over a few years and you end up probably losing a lot of money.
So it's really important, particularly when you're new, just take it slow and learn as you go, right? Yeah. Yeah, and I think that the phrase it's your money and if you don't care about it, who else will has been sort of instilled in me by my parents, which is something they take to heart.
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Chapter 6: How do managed funds and ETFs differ?
And I've sort of learnt from them that if – Even if you give your money to someone else to take control of, whether that be a fund manager, an advisor, a bank, you need to know where it is, what it's doing. And even if you don't care about the nitty gritty bits, you want to know what fees you're paying and what they're doing with your money. Yeah, that's right. I think it's like.
We have this at the RAS group. Our tagline is empowering. Yeah. And it's a silly little phrase that gets tossed around too much in the financial world, but it's true. And I think the only way to really empower yourself financially is to have control.
And not only that, by doing things yourself, you don't have to be, like I said in the last episode, you don't have to have a PhD in economics, but by doing it yourself, you empower yourself and it's also a lot cheaper. Yeah. Yeah. And even if you make mistakes doing it yourself, it's really important that you make the mistakes and you learn from it.
If you hand off all decision making to someone else and you're not involved in the process, then they get to make the mistakes and they get to learn the lessons.
Chapter 7: What should you consider when investing in shares?
But you miss out on all of that learning. That's right. That's right. Okay. So we've got something here, Kate. We've got a question that's come in and it says, my friend told me about this great investment where I'm guaranteed to double my money in just one year. How awesome is that? And that's the question. What do you make of that? What's your answer?
So that is the question I get a lot from friends just because I'm the money nerd of the friendship group. And I just call that the classic Aussie barbecue tip because you get that so often. It's been lithium. It's been marijuana stocks. It's been crypto.
Chapter 8: What are the building blocks of a diversified investment portfolio?
Gold and silver are the flavor of the moment I'm getting from friends. I think a lot of these, I would classify them as speculation. Most of the people asking about them don't actually know. I can't say I know anything about those areas either, but I wouldn't classify them as investing unless you're really sort of specialised in that area. Yeah, that's it.
As soon as someone says you work in finance, oh, what do you think about silver? Jesus, come on. No, I don't know where that's coming from, but yeah, that seems to be the flavor. Yeah, it's Instagram versus reality or the expectations versus reality old thing. If it sounds too good to be true, it generally is. In fact, it almost certainly is.
Yeah.
When people ask you a question about this or when they ask me a question, it's always like if they are asking me the question, it means I don't know the answer. And if it's something as simple as what do you think of, it tells me that they haven't really thought much about it themselves.
Yeah.
Well, they've already bought it and want someone to validate that decision. That's right.
They're just seeking out confirmation bias and they're not, you know, it's one of those things if you can't explain the risks, you know, just as quickly as you can explain the reward or the opportunity and you couldn't do it, you couldn't relay that message to say a five-year-old or a ten-year-old in language that they can understand, you're in over your head because that's as difficult as investing should be.
Just what's the opportunity? What are the risks? And if it's too complicated, don't get involved. I guess the sad thing is so many people do take this barbecue tip from their friend or neighbor or colleague and then they get burnt on their first experience and then decide that investing is just a complete scam and they're just going to not even worry about it.
And they only come back to it 20 years later and they miss out on so much time in the market and a chance to really build wealth. Yeah, that's true. And it's one of those things where it's so unfortunate but it is a reality because people are letting their emotions drive them. So if you can think logically rather than – and this comes back to goal setting. What do you want from your investing?
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