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What is the Reddit‑sourced question about first‑time investing for a 21‑year‑old university student?
Today on the show we are talking Reddit Edition. Now I jumped onto Reddit and all the questions we're going to talk about and answer today are from Reddit. They're anonymous and there is a bit of a theme about investing for the first time. Uh, should I see a financial advisor, buying a first home? and I'm sure we'll get into some trouble along the way. Today however I am joined by Vince Scully from Life Shopper Invest, geta Vince. Geta
Glenn.
And uh your favorite property mogul, John Pigeon.
Hello, Glenn. Hello, Vince. G'day John.
Okay, John, do you want to read the first question there?
Help with investing for the first time. I know this will have been asked a million times, but I'm a 21 year old uni student. I have about 35k saved, and it's currently just sitting in a Combank goal saver account. I'm not going to need it for a while since I have four years of uni left. I know you're not meant to have this much cash sitting when it could be earning more interest, but I don't fully understand. How do these apps work? Which brokerage apps do you use? What percent do they take for both buying and selling? Is that even something worth worrying about? And what are the best things to buy? Should I just put it all into one ETF, spread across multiple, get individual stocks or a mix? And also, should I stay domestic or also buy into other markets like the US?
Are there extra costs or risks for the world? associated with that. Sorry for the basic questions. I've just been finding it hard to understand.
You know, it's it's actually a good question because I was writing down we've got four kind of parts of this. One, our goals, two, how do we buy it? Three, what do we buy? And four, what asset allocation do we use? So it's actually a a really good question. My initial thoughts on that one Particularly for uni students. I'm half okay if you want to keep cash heavy for four years until you finish uni. Because that's okay.
Yeah. I mean if I were a twenty one year old year old union student and I had thirty five grand. I certainly wouldn't be investing in. No I'll be having a good time.
Yeah. I didn't have thirty five K when I was at uni.
They didn't have thirty five K when I was at uni.
Was it in the pound?
It was pounds. Mm.
Was that at the old Irish punts. Was that in the uh Irish university?
Mm-hmm. The world's oldest engineering school, I'll have you know. Is it really? Yeah, it is.
Um look, so I don't know, you you've with anything, you've got to go back to your goals. In the first instance, where I'm and it's so funny because we talk about having an emergency fund, right? Which could be three to six months worth of expenses. Now, for this guy here, there could be Depending on where they're living, if they're at home or in a boarding house, the emergency fund could be six thousand dollars. Like it might not be huge. So I think if he's got thirty five K saved Or she, we don't actually know. I'm probably saying fifteen grand, my emergency fund done, locked in. Because when they graduate, it's just it's gonna be around that in the real world anyway. So I'm probably taking fifteen grand off the top of it to start with.
Then the question is What do we do with it? If you don't have any goals of travel or partying like, you know, you suggested, Vince. And you genuinely don't need to buy a new car over the next four years or anything like that. Well, there is an argument that it can be put to work.
Yeah.
The thing that I reckon where people can trip up on is we know that interest in a bank account could be five and a half percent. And maybe the average return on the share market could be eight percent. People see that, but What you could say is well That three percent discount. over a three or four years in real terms based on your thirty five grand and we don't know if there's a savings rate there, it's very material and that c immaterial and it could be, well, this is just an insurance policy that I'm ab absorbing. By not putting the money at risk. Yeah. Or Put in the market, go for gold. And then in four years' times if you decide you do need to travel and the market's tanked, well you might have to p pause your travel if you don't want to sell at a loss.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the Reddit‑sourced question about first‑time investing for a 21‑year‑old university student?
0:06–9:37
2
How should a young investor decide between keeping cash, using an emergency fund, or putting money into the market?
9:37–19:32
3
What are robo‑advisors, how do they work, and when might they be a good fit for a beginner?
19:32–28:38
4
How will the new capital‑gains‑tax (CGT) rules be calculated after the July 2027 changes?
28:38–36:56
5
What is the smartest strategy when a property has passed in at auction and the seller pressures the buyer?
36:56–45:24
6
What should first‑time home buyers know about deposits, valuation, and contract terms after a passed‑in auction?
45:24–52:58
7
What are the biggest myths in property investing and how does the team bust them?
52:58–1:02:03
8
What resources (books, podcasts, community) does the show recommend for new investors and property buyers?
1:02:03–1:09:42
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