The Easiest Way to Start Investing in the UK - ETFs for Beginners

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Are you wondering how to start investing and growing your money safely in the UK? Allow me to tell you a story. A story about a time that Warren Buffett placed a million-dollar bet. A bet to prove that you and I can outperform the most astute Wall Street investment bankers, and not only outperform them, but do it very easily. And cheaply too!

In this video, we discuss what ETFs are and why Warren Buffett believes they are the best thing since sliced bread.

We also discuss the 2 best investment platforms for investing in ETFs in the UK today. And we close off with a conversation about different types of investments, depending on your risk appetite.

This is the first in a series of videos on investing in the UK as an immigrant from Nigeria. The financial principles apply to everyone however we will be exploring the peculiar challenges faced by immigrants and how to handle them.

0:00 Video Intro
00:24 Why I made this video
00:44 Introducing Modupe
01:54 The Topic for Today
02:03 What John Bogle said
02:28 An ETF in plain English
02:36 Finding the needle in a haystack
03:37 How it works in practice
04:32 Pros and Cons of Investing through ETFs
05:47 Risk and Reward
06:30 Investing for Beginners
07:03 Nothing is 100% safe
07:11 My Favourite ETFs
07:23 VWRL - Buying the biggest companies in the world
07:51 Investing is a Long Term exercise
08:19 Question 1
09:06 About Dividends
10:50 Nigerian Stocks
11:54 US/UK Stocks
12:50 The Case for Dividend ETFs
13:02 VHYL
14:15 Question 2
14:28 Investment Platforms
14:33 Platform 1 - Stocks & ETFs
14:49 Fees
15:54 Platform 2 - ETFs only
16:07 Warren Buffett's Million Dollar Bet
18:13 Question 3
18:25 Why are YOU investing?
19:30 FIRE Goals
20:36 The Panda Boss Example
22:00 Dividend Stocks vs Growth Stocks
23:04 Nigerian Dividend Stocks
23:55 Dividend Compounding
26:05 Question 4
26:53 The issue with stock picking
27:28 My criteria for picking stocks
28:16 Question 5
28:57 The 3 Investment Buckets
30:07 Pensions
30:53 Money Market Funds
31:25 High Interest Savings Accounts
32:10 Property?
34:00 Stocks & ETFs
34:14 5-Year Trends
34:29 Capital (Principal) at Risk
34:54 Speculative Investments
35:03 Cryptocurrency
35:13 Disclaimer
35:16 Bitcoin
35:35 Ethereum
35:56 Stable coins
36:37 Crowdfunding
37:35 What I need from you

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