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Jess makes her first investments and shares her experiences and strategies.

Today is the day Jess makes her very first investments!! Bryce and Ren are back to hear what she has decided to buy. She’s spent weeks learning the ropes - working on her mindset, building a budget, setting goals, understanding ETF’s… But hasn’t actually put any money into the market. Until now. Chapters 00:00:00 First Investment And Goals 00:04:03 Cash Versus Super Strategy 00:08:10 Emergency Buffer And ETF Mix 00:11:31 Long Term Growth Projections 00:13:45 Emerging Markets Discussion 00:17:15 Live Trades And Investor Mindset Links Mentioned in this episode: 📩 Sign up to the Get Started Investing newsletter here 📩 Share your investing story with us submit here 🎟️ FinFest tickets - Buy early bird tickets here Want more Equity Mates? Across books, podcasts, video and email, however you want to learn about investing – we’ve got you covered. ——— Thanks to Betashares Direct for sponsoring this series and helping us keep our content free. Check it out at betashares.com.au/direct Betashares Capital Ltd (ABN 78 139 566 868 AFSL 341181) is the issuer of Betashares Invest, the IDPS-like scheme available via Betashares Direct. Read the relevant Product Disclosure Statement and Target…

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Hosts: Bryce, Ren

Guest: Jess

Topics covered

• first investments
• investing strategy
• ETFs
• budgeting
• long term growth
• emerging markets

Keywords

• investing
• ETFs
• budgeting
• long term growth
• emergency buffer
• emerging markets
• investor mindset

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Organizations: Equity Mates Media

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