Our series on investment for beginners takes you through the steps of getting started with shares.
So, you think you might like to invest in shares, but you're stuck at the first hurdle thinking: "Yes, but what do I actually do?" Well, you're not alone, and this series on investment for beginners is for you.
Over the past few months, we've taken a look at what shares are and how stock markets work, with the emphasis on what you actually do and how you go about setting up the necessary accounts, transferring money around, and actually buying and selling shares. We've also written this free guide -- "What Every New Investor Needs To Know" -- to help you as well.
Plus, we've even set up a sample portfolio, to contain shares about ten companies, with the aim of keeping track of news and results. Please note, the focus here is on the practical operation of the portfolio, not the tracking of its performance (though we hope that will be reasonable, too).
Here are the links to the series so far:
16 May 2012 The Beginners' Portfolio Is Up 32% In Its First Year!
29 April 2013 The Beginners' Portfolio: Was It A Mistake To Buy Apple Inc.? (Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL.US))
16 April 2013 The Beginners' Portfolio: Vodafone Group plc And Aviva plc Are In The News
27 March 2013 The Beginners' Portfolio: Vodafone Group plc And Tesco PLC Are In The News
19 March 2013 The Beginners' Portfolio Buys Aviva plc (Aviva (LSE: AV))
05 March 2013 The Beginners' Portfolio Ponders Buying An Insurer
26 February 2013 Beginners' Portfolio Up 22%!
18 February 2013 Beginners' Portfolio: FTSE 100 Results (BP (LSE: BP), GlaxoSmithKline (LSE: GSK), Vodafone (LSE: VOD), Blinkx (LSE: BLNX))
29 January 2013 Beginners' Portfolio: We Buy Apple! (Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL.US))
21 January 2013 Beginners' Portfolio: Watchlist Update (Unilever (LSE: ULVR), United Utilities (LSE: UU), SSE (LSE: SSE), GKN (LSE: GKN), Rio Tinto (LSE: RIO))
14 January 2013 Beginners' Portfolio: The Unemotional Investor
28 December 2012 Beginners' Portfolio: Year-End Valuation
24 December 2012 Beginners' Portfolio: Don't Overanalyse!
21 December 2012 Beginners' Portfolio: Watchlist Update
12 December 2012 Beginners' Portfolio: Three Shares In The News
22 November 2012 Beginners' Portfolio: Five Shares In The News
08 November 2012 Beginners' Portfolio: Two New Candidates (Morgan Sindall (LSE: MGNS), Weir Group (LSE: WEIR))
24 October 2012 Beginners' Portfolio: Time For A Valuation
11 October 2012 Beginners' Portfolio: A Look At The News (BAE Systems (LSE: BA), Tesco (LSE: TSCO))
03 October 2012 Beginners' Portfolio: We Buy An Engineer! (BAE Systems (LSE: BA))
27 September 2012 Beginners' Portfolio: 2 More Shares To Watch (WS Atkins (LSE: ATK) and TUI Travel (LSE: TT))
20 September 2012 Beginners' Portfolio: We Start A Watchlist (Unilever (LSE: ULVR), BAE Systems (LSE: BA), Ricardo (LSE: RCDO), United Utilities (LSE: UU))
06 September 2012 Beginners' Portfolio: What's Been Happening
16 August 2012 Beginners' Portfolio: We Buy A Miner (Rio Tinto (LSE: RIO))
08 August 2012 Beginners' Portfolio: Time For A Round-Up
02 August 2012 Beginners' Portfolio: Time To Buy Oil! (BP (LSE: BP))
25 July 2012 Two Woodford Shares To Buy Now (GlaxoSmithKline (LSE: GSK), British American Tobacco (LSE: BATS))
18 July 2012 Beginners' Portfolio: Let’s Buy A Growth Share! (Blinkx (LSE: BLNX))
04 July 2012 Beginners' Portfolio: The Latest Purchase (Persimmon (LSE: PSN))
12 June 2012 Beginners' Portfolio: A New Purchase (GlaxoSmithKline (LSE: GSK))
01 June 2012 Ask A Foolish Question -- Why The Market Hates Uncertainty
23 May 2012 Beginners' Portfolio: We Buy More Shares (Tesco (LSE: TSCO))
18 May 2012 Beginners' Portfolio: First Purchase (Vodafone (LSE: VOD))
18 May 2012 Ask A Foolish Question -- What Is An Unsustainable Dividend?
15 May 2012 How To Come Up With Investing Ideas
11 May 2012 How To Build A Portfolio
10 May 2012 How Much Should You Invest?
08 May 2012 A Cheaper Way To Buy Shares
04 May 2012 Ask A Foolish Question -- What's The Best Time Of Day To Invest
01 May 2012 How Much Tax Will You Pay?
27 April 2012 How To Buy Shares
24 April 2012 What Is A Stockbroker?
20 April 2012 Ask A Foolish Question -- What Drives Share Prices?
20 April 2012 What Is A Share?
19 April 2012 Investment For Beginners
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