Every day I am thinking about how hard our money is working for us. The harder it works, the more it makes and the less WE have to work. There is absolutely no point in me putting money in places where it does not earn any interest.
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Every day I am thinking about how hard our money is working for us. The harder it works, the more it makes and the less WE have to work. There is absolutely no point in me putting money in places where it does not earn any interest.
A Bond is a loan you make to a government, state owned enterprise, council or company. Perhaps they have a specific project they are working on and they need to raise some cash to do it.
It is 5.30am on a Tuesday morning and I have woken up with clear intentions. Coffee and investing.
Does this sound too extreme to you? A nine year old with an investment portfolio so she can plan for something that may happen in her 20’s.
Now, if you are going to become an investor you kind of need to know what on earth they are talking about, at least a little bit.
Having purposefully just returned from America on Monday two days BEFORE the American election I had an inkling that things might get a little crazy.
Hang on a moment, just doing the math here: 112 shares x $4.19058 = $469.35. Where did the other $30.65 of his $500 investment go?
If I told you about an investment you could opt into which could result in you potentially losing 50% of EVERYTHING you had, would you do it? I’ve already done it and I can tell you that it is the one investment I pay the most attention to.
It has taken me quite some time to learn about diversification and the impact it can have on my investing. But it turns out that I was actually diversifying even when I still had debt.