All tagged SmartShares

What do people email me about?

What do people email me about?

Ruth
Budgeting, Index Funds, KiwiSaver, Money Education, Personal Finance, SmartShares, SuperLife, Simplicity, ETF

Each week I get a lot of emails and it takes up a lot of time, but it’s an honour to answer each of them. People just want someone to ask a money question to but in their day to day lives it’s a complete lottery as to whether they can find the right person in their friend group to talk to, so they write to me instead. So, I just wanted to share with you an edited version of an email exchange I’ve been having with someone over the last few months which will give you an insight into what kind of stuff comes up when I chat to people.

Help! I’m freaking out, how do I sell?

Help! I’m freaking out, how do I sell?

Ruth
Shares, Sharesies, Sharesight, SmartShares, Hatch, Investment

From time to time I get emails along the lines of: Oh crikey, I think I should sell! Due to the ease with which we can now invest there are many people who are investing for the first time in their lives. They are learning how to buy, what to buy, what they like, what they don’t like. It used to be hard to invest, but that’s all changed now with the likes of SHARESIES and HATCH, the signup process is so rapid that you are signed up and have started investing before you can really comprehend what you are doing.

Sharesies: Detour Ahead

Sharesies: Detour Ahead

Ruth
Personal Finance, Shares, Sharesies, Sharesight, SmartShares

Sharesies has lowered the barriers to entry for those wanting to enter the share market and they set about serving a previously underserved demographic. Sharesies has helped people see that becoming a share investor is another viable way to grow your wealth in New Zealand. They are now giving you the chance to buy shares in individual companies and spend as little or as much as you like.

How I Help My Daughter Invest

How I Help My Daughter Invest

Ruth
Index Funds, Investment, Kids and Money, KiwiSaver, Money Education, Sharesies, SmartShares, Simplicity

Every week I receive one or two emails specifically asking about how to help children invest and there are often comments on various social media about whether you even should help your kids and if you do, whether you should tell them about it. Over the years we’ve evolved an investment methodology for our daughter that appears to be working so I thought I would share with you what we do in our own whare and that might give you some tips for what you can do in your own household.

Time in the market is your money’s best friend.

Time in the market is your money’s best friend.

Ruth
Money Education, Personal Finance, Shares, Sharesies, SmartShares, SuperLife, Index Funds, ETF

I interviewed a bloke for an upcoming episode of my podcast and he had a lot to say about investing in individual shares and why he used to buy them, but now no longer does. He took the advice of a good friend when she told him, back in the 1980s, just buy into today’s equivalent of an index fund and let time in the market be your money’s best friend. Low and behold, she was correct.

Thanks John C. Bogle for Making Investing Simple

Thanks John C. Bogle for Making Investing Simple

Ruth
Index Funds, Money Education, SmartShares, Sharesies, SuperLife, ETF

When I realised that in order to become an investor I didn’t have to learn how to pick stocks it was like the clouds had parted and the sun had finally come out. And I have American John C. Bogle to thank for that. Last week he passed away at the age of 89 but he leaves a huge legacy behind and I know that in years to come many will still be learning from him, just like I did.

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