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Academy Class: Investing 101

What are stocks and shares?

Move aside beef, vegetable and chicken, financial stock is where the money’s at....

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Academy Class: Investing 101

What is impact investing?

Impact investing is ‘feel-good’ investing. It’s all about making a positive impact on the...

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Academy Class: Investing 101

What is ESG?

ESGs are a criteria used by impact investors to analyse a company. It’s a bit like...

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Academy Class: Investing 101

Why use impact investing?

Maybe you’ve taken a shine to Impact Investing. Maybe you’ve been using the ESG criteria...

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Academy Class: Investing 101

What are fractional shares?

Imagine you’re at a pizzeria, and you can’t decide between the hawaiian, pepperoni or BBQ...

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Academy Class: Investing 101

What are stock markets?

The stock market is a bit like the housing market or the foreign exchange market. Here...

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Academy Class: Investing 101

What are stock exchanges?

Have you ever been to a farmers market on a Saturday morning? One week you may find...

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Academy Class: Investing 101

What is a ticker symbol?

Stocks are listed on the market by short names known as ticker symbols. NYSE:APLE?...

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Academy Class: Investing 101

What are share prices?

Share price is the price of the individual stock the company wishes to sell. Share prices...

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Academy Class: Investing 101

Why buy and sell shares?

You guessed it! The answer is to make money. Investors will purchase shares from a...

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Academy Class: Investing 101

What are compounding returns?

You can imagine compounding or compound investing is like a rolling snowball. The ball...

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Academy Class: Investing 101

What are dividends?

Do you remember that warm fuzzy feeling of receiving a handwritten thank you card?...

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Academy Class: Investing 101

What is a stock split and corporate action?

A stock split is like when a company decides to take karate lessons and karate chop or...

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Academy Class: Investing 101

What are managed funds?

If you have some money to invest and would prefer a professional’s watchful eye, perhaps...

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Academy Class: Investing 101

What are ETFs?

If you’re scrolling through the stock exchange and looking for something other than a...

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Academy Class: Investor Types

What are growth investors?

There are two main approaches to investing – growth and value. Growth investors are...

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Academy Class: Investor Types

What are value investors?

The second type of investors are value investors. These people are bargain hunters....

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Academy Class: Valuing a stock

What is the P/E ratio?

When you’re hunting for a good bottle of Shiraz, there are many things you may take into...

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Academy Class: Valuing a stock

What is the cash flow ratio?

The cash flow ratio is the little sister of the P/E ratio. It’s the second way to...

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Academy Class: Valuing a stock

What is the D/E ratio?

D/E ratio (debt/equity ratio) is the third ratio sibling. It’s like the risk-averse...

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Academy Class: Risk and Reward

What is risk (vs reward)?

Skydiving, horse riding, golf. Each sport has their own level of risk and reward. Some...

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Academy Class: Risk and Reward

What is volatility?

Imagine a heart rate monitor. When the graph is smooth, volatility is low. But when the...

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Academy Class: Risk and Reward

What is capital loss?

When you lose money on the stock market, it’s called a capital loss. When you gain money...

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Academy Class: Risk and Reward

What is market size?

You’ve heard the saying ‘strength lies in numbers’. Well, the stock market certainly...

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Academy Class: Risk and Reward

What does spreading risk (diversification) mean?

Christchurch and San Francisco are places known for earthquakes. But if you take a look...

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Academy Class: Risk and Reward

What is the difference between a long term and short term investment?

Investments are like jobs. Some short term jobs cause a lot of blood, sweat and tears,...

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Academy Class: Risk and Reward

What is a bull market?

There are two different states of the stock market: bulls and bears. You may have heard...

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Academy Class: Risk and Reward

What is a bear market?

There are two different states of the stock market: bulls and bears. Just like bears,...

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Academy Class: Risk and Reward

What is dollar cost averaging?

Remember the days of pocket money? Every month you put the same amount into the bank....

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Academy Class: Getting started

What is a broker?

Every investor who wants to buy and sell shares on the stock market needs a broker. A...

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Academy Class: Getting started

Funding an account

Getting started is easy! The first thing your broker will help you do is open a bank...

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Academy Class: Getting started

What is a minimum?

Early along your investment journey, you may bump into the phrase ‘minimums’. In a...

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Academy Class: Getting started

What is a market order?

An investor will instruct a broker to make a market order when they want to buy shares....

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Academy Class: Getting started

What is trading?

Now you’re ready to start trading. Trading is the phrase for buying and selling shares....

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Academy Class: Getting started

Fees and returns

Sadly, trading itself isn’t free. There’s a cost to buy and sell shares. Along your...

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Academy Class: Getting started

When is a good time to invest?

You’ll never find a builder who starts hammering away without a plan. Every builder needs...

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Academy Class: Getting started

Which company do I back?

It’s the million dollar question. But deciding on which company to invest in is a highly...

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Academy Class: Getting started

How do I monitor my investments?

Investments are a little like plants. Depending on the type, you could go weeks without...

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Academy Class: Getting started

What is an investment portfolio?

A portfolio is just that – a portfolio of your investments. A portfolio isn’t just...

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Academy Class: Getting started

What is a good time to sell?

It’s hard to know when to sell. There are no golden rules. But there are a few golden...

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