Why you haven’t started investing

Recently, I asked people IF THEY WANTED TO INVEST BUT HAVEN’T YET, how come?

Sorry I had to yell and use bold so that you read that question properly.

These were the answers:

• Overwhelming. Don’t know where to start or how to start

• Uni student and budget is too tight right now

• Sharesies vs Hatch vs Tiger - trapped with making the right decision with tooling

• The paperwork

• Small amount won’t make a difference

• Don’t know where to start and where the money needs to be invested

• Don’t know where to start

• Unsure how to do it

• Just don’t know where to start tbh, there’s a lot of info online, so no real excuse, just lazy to read

• I don’t really know HOW

• Unsure how to

• No idea where to start

• Haven’t educated myself enough yet

• Spent years thinking about it, finally started 6 weeks ago

• Fear of losing money I put in

• I’m scared

• Signed up, but now what???

• Don’t know where to start seems overwhelming

• TBH too scared but lazy at the same time

• Started sherries but don’t know WTF I am doing

• Fear of losing what I put in - low risk tolerance

• Don’t know how

• Definitely fear of losing the hard to obtain

• Not sure what fund

• Nervous about losing it

• Wondering if a major catastrophe will blow the world to smithereens

• Finally did today, analysis paralysis stopped me for a wee bit

• Just afraid of losing money

• Not sure where to start

• Over thinking which ‘platform’ to use

• Need more money before risking it incase I lose it

• I’m not sure what kind of investor I want to be

Shesh, where do we start?

Before I summarise what I think the key 3 are, know this:

You have TO WANT TO invest and that will help get you started.

Warren Buffett won’t pop up on your screen and tell you what stock to invest in.

The current PM isn’t holding a 1pm stand up for you with the answers either.

You’re on your own, but the guard rails are up so high that you’re so unlikely to hit a gutter ball long term. Stop aiming for a strike and bowl ya ball!

I bought my first share at 17 before any of the sexy platforms existed. And this week I learned that stock markets have been around since the 1700’s.

So many people have come and gone before us because THEY WANTED TO.

Investing is a LEARNING JOURNEY. I repeat, you learn as you go.

Now, equally important, do you know what is really scary? From my observation, MOST of the responses above came from women.

If you are an investor and know a woman who wants to invest but is stuck, it is now your challenge to help them take action and provide them with resources, OK? OK????? Own that challenge.

Otherwise, we will have more and more and more and more and more convos about how men have more invested than women and keep fighting over gaps instead of addressing something instantly solvable: teaching women to invest. If you have the smarts and experience, please bridge the gap for those people who just need some help and support.

Now, over the coming weeks we will get into the key 3 reasons people haven’t started investing - as per the above list.

1. Fear/scared

2. Unsure how

3. Analysis paralysisBefore we do that, I want you to consider this:

Sharesies is just one platform in NZ that started to provide easier access to investing in NZ. They only started in 2017.

They now manage over $3.5 billion in funds and have over 700,000 users across NZ and Australia.

700,000 users. Do you know how many people that is!

So a lot of Kiwi are actually investing in some form, whether it be via these types of platforms OR via their KiwiSaver provider who invest in shares.

• Why not get closer to your KiwiSaver fund and find out what it is invested in, no matter how big or small it is?

• Find out what fund you're in, and what stocks make up that fund?

• How does the provider make sense of investing in those companies every week and how come they don't struggle with point 1, 2 or 3?

Might be time to be bold,

Luke

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