Looking beyond the noise - with a special bonus bark of optimism from Bear the Studio Pooch.

Market update recorded at 9am March 18, 2020. Should you be edging back into the market now? Maybe, maybe not. Picking the bottom is impossible and if you wait for the coast to be clear, markets will have already taken off. There are no easy answers.

Rob Gilmour was my guest on the first ever episode of Shares for Beginners. He kindly dropped in to share his thoughts on the current market turmoil and some optimism about the future.

Blog post here - https://www.sharesforbeginners.com/blog/stay-safe

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Is this your first global share market meltdown?

I generally talk about markets in broad brush strokes. This is not a news podcast but I know there's a lot of anxiety around at the moment. Hence this episode. Blog post for this episode - https://www.sharesforbeginners.com/blog/situation-normal.

Tony & I recorded this on Wednesday March 11 after the Australian market dropped ~20% over the last 2 weeks. As I write this at 8:30am on Thursday March 12, Wall St has fallen another 6% overnight. Things are getting ugly. But as Tony points out this is situation normal.

The problems are caused by the corona virus and the price of crude oil. Rob Gilmour, who you may remember from the first episode of this podcast, dropped around and gave a brief overview about what's happening with oil and why it matters. It's right at the end of the episode after Tony.

TONY KYNASTON is a multi-millionaire professional investor. Thanks to the checklist system he developed, the average return on his portfolio over the last 20 years has been 19.5% pa. Tony's knowledge and calm analysis takes the guesswork (and trauma) out of share market investing.

Portfolio tracker Sharesight tracks your trades, shows your true performance, and saves you time and money at tax time. Get 4 months free at https://www.sharesight.com/au/sharesforbeginners

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This bonus episode is a shameless plug for the Australian Shareholders' Association. I’ve mentioned them many times on this podcast and the great work that they do. I’m a member and I strongly suggest, highly recommend and implore you to join. It’s $130 a year for online only membership, which is a bargain, and as you’ll hear from John it works for the interests of individual shareholders like you and me. There's more here at the episode blog post - https://www.sharesforbeginners.com/blog/john-cowling

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When we think of shares we generally think of single companies that are listed on the stock market. This is not always the case. Some shares allow you to access investments that are generally beyond the scope of individual investors. Such is the case with Bailador – ASX:BTI, a specialist investor in growth stage information technology businesses. I am pleased to welcome our guest David Kirk, co-founder & partner.

David is the former Chief Executive of ASX-listed Fairfax Media Ltd., where he led the successful investment into a number of internet businesses including Fairfax’s acquisition of Trade Me and Stayz. He has been a growth stage investor in technology-based businesses since 1999. He's Chairman of ASX-listed Trade Me Group Limited and Kathmandu Holdings Limited, Chairman of Forsyth Barr Limited, a privately-owned New Zealand investment firm, and a Director of each of DocsCorp, SMI, Viostream and Rezdy.

Prior to entering the corporate world, David enjoyed a highly successful rugby career, captaining the All Blacks to win the World Cup in 1987.

Episode notes: https://www.sharesforbeginners.com/blog/david-kirk

Bailador web-site:

https://bailador.com.au/

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Roger Montgomery is Chief Investment Officer and founder of Montgomery Investment Management. This followed a successful career as an analyst, strategist, fund manager and public company chairman. We discuss:

• Value, growth and momentum investing
• How franking credits affect investment in Australian companies
• Valuing small & micro-cap companies
• The difference between 20th and 21st century companies
• Developing a circle of competence before plunging headlong into markets
• A paradise for introverts - working in funds management
• How technologies that change the world don't necessarily make money for investors.
• Patience during downturns

Here's the link to the blog post https://www.sharesforbeginners.com/blog/roger-montgomery

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Today is the first birthday of this podcast. I want to thank you the listeners for your kind words and comments. I hope that I’m doing something to help you learn about how and where your money is invested.

I also wanted to talk to you about time - the most important investing tool that you have on your side.

The blog post for this episode is here - https://www.sharesforbeginners.com/blog/first-birthday

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Today I’m chatting with Chris Tate from the Trading Game. Chris has seen all types of markets and traded practically every instrument available, and if you don’t know what an instrument is in financial terms, you’ll find out in this episode. Many of my guests use fundamental analysis to value companies and come up with their investment strategy. But we can’t ignore the other approach which is known as technical analysis.

This episode is about those charts and how they show price action.

Blog post for this episode is available at https://www.sharesforbeginners.com/blog/chris-tate

You can contact Chris via The Trading Game website https://www.tradinggame.com.au/

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Tony Kynaston is a former senior executive of companies like Coles and Shell. He started investing in the stock market 30 years ago and developed a simple checklist methodology (by studying people like Warren Buffett) that allowed him to retire from his corporate career at age 43 and become a professional investor. And he’s done pretty well since then. The average return on his portfolio over the last 20 years has been 19.5% per annum – double the ASX index. QAV stands for QUALITY AT VALUE. Tony's approach is to use a checklist to find companies that are performing well (quality) but which can also be bought at a discount (value). It's basically what is usually called "value investing".

More info at https://www.sharesforbeginners.com/blog/kynaston

TONY KYNASTON is a multi-millionaire professional investor. Thanks to the checklist system he developed, the average return on his portfolio over the last 20 years has been 19.5% pa. Tony's knowledge and calm analysis takes the guesswork (and trauma) out of share market investing.

Portfolio tracker Sharesight tracks your trades, shows your true performance, and saves you time and money at tax time. Get 4 months free at https://www.sharesight.com/au/sharesforbeginners

Disclosure: The links provided are affiliate links. I will be paid a commission if you use these link to make a purchase. You will also usually receive a discount by using these links/coupon codes. I only recommend products and services that I use and trust myself or where I have interviewed and/or met the founders and have assured myself that they’re offering something of value. Shares for Beginners is for information and educational purposes only. It isn’t financial advice, and you shouldn’t buy or sell any investments based on what you’ve heard here. Any opinion or commentary is the view of the speaker only not Shares for Beginners. This podcast doesn’t replace professional advice regarding your personal financial needs, circumstances or current situation.

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Here's a link to the blog post for this episode https://www.sharesforbeginners.com/blog/claude-walker - Match your risk to your experience.

Claude is an Australian small company investor who looks for the best opportunities at the small end of the ASX. He is the founder of A Rich Life and he looks for profitable, ethical businesses suitable to invest in.

Claude is trained in law and is interested in renewable energy and environmental action. He found that he could achieve more through investing. He writes about companies that he likes and some of his mistakes and successes.

This episode is not just about ethical investing. Claude has plenty of good advice for sharemarket beginners. I especially enjoyed his pizza analogy for describing market capitalisation.

Find out more at:

https://arichlife.com.au/

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Shares for Beginners is for information and educational purposes only. It isn’t financial advice, and you shouldn’t buy or sell any investments based on what you’ve heard here. Any opinion or commentary is the view of the speaker only not Shares for Beginners. This podcast doesn’t replace professional advice regarding your personal financial needs, circumstances or current situation.

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Michael Dee is the founder of Pythagoras Investing, a subscription service in the business of predicting share price behaviour using mathematics.

Find out more information here - https://www.pythagorasinvesting.com/

Michael discusses the biases that affect investors. They're difficult to avoid, but being aware of them can make for better investing.

This episode is for Deryl from Wollongong who asked for some more info about psychology in share investment. Thanks for the question and your kind words about the podcast. More notes about this podcast can be found at the blog post here https://www.sharesforbeginners.com/blog/michael-dee.

Michael has generously tailored an offering for listeners to this podcast that can be accessed here. This is not an affiliate program and I'm not making any commission from referring listeners to Michael's web-site. It's up to you to decide whether Pythagoras Investing is for you. This is not a recommendation from me and as always do your own due diligence.

Portfolio tracker Sharesight tracks your trades, shows your true performance, and saves you time and money at tax time. Get 4 months free at https://www.sharesight.com/au/sharesforbeginners

Disclosure: The links provided are affiliate links. I will be paid a commission if you use these link to make a purchase. You will also usually receive a discount by using these links/coupon codes. I only recommend products and services that I use and trust myself or where I have interviewed and/or met the founders and have assured myself that they’re offering something of value. Shares for Beginners is for information and educational purposes only. It isn’t financial advice, and you shouldn’t buy or sell any investments based on what you’ve heard here. Any opinion or commentary is the view of the speaker only not Shares for Beginners. This podcast doesn’t replace professional advice regarding your personal financial needs, circumstances or current situation.

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