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Get access to expert advice in creating, growing and protecting your wealth, with the right answers that will guide you to make a sound decision about your investment goals.
Get access to expert advice in creating, growing and protecting your wealth, with the right answers that will guide you to make a sound decision about your investment goals.
Spread your investment across different companies and over different sectors. The biggest risk in investing is putting all your eggs in one basket. The easiest way to diversify share investments is through exchange traded funds (ETFs).
Don't wait. The sooner you start to invest, the better. Time is an investor's best friend because it gives your investments the best chance for growth.
The sooner you create the good habit of regular investing the sooner you start participating in market growth.
Only invest money that you set aside on a monthly basis to help grow your investments. This should never be money that you would need for day-to-day expense.
Investing is a marathon and not a sprint. Make sure that you are happy with the idea that the money invested is not available to you for the near future.
Spread your investment across different companies and over different sectors. The biggest risk in investing is putting all your eggs in one basket. The easiest way to diversify share investments is through exchange traded funds (ETF).
Before you decide to invest in shares it's important to understand what shares are, how you can buy and sell shares and to familiarise yourself with basic stock market terms and concepts.
Events that can trigger share movements:
Inflation rate: A high inflation rate may result in more investors resorting to buying shares, thus increasing the demand for shares. Generally, shares are still a good risk minimiser against inflation because a company's earnings should theoretically grow at the same rate as inflation over time.
Interest rates: High interest rates attract people into making investments in interest rate-bearing investments and not in shares, thus decreasing demand for shares.
Expectations of buyers and sellers, concerning how much profit will be made, plays an important role in price behaviour in the long term. If a company does not perform well, shareholders start to sell and look for other shares. On the other hand, when a company performs well and declares good dividends, demand for shares exceed supply and investors are happy to pay a higher price.
Fee type
These are costs that you cannot avoid, although the broker's cost varies between brokerages.
Fee type
Brokerage fee paid to the broker who does the buying for you.
