The Female Investors Project

Spoiler alert.. I don't think its a good idea. So, backstory, I had a couple people ask about portfolio simulators and whether they are a good way to learn about investing and prepare to actually start investing.. and my answer is always that the best way to learn about investing is doing it. Sure, do your research, get the basics down pat but if you get the basics, stop trying to perfect it for the sake of it. As a beginner, I highly doubt that you would go into the market all guns blazing and trade on the daily, so why would you do that in a fake portfolio? Especially when your first investment is very unlikely to mimic an investment from a fake portfolio. Investing will always come with risk, that's why I suggest only starting with money you can afford to lose. So if you can afford to lose the cash, then allow yourself the luxury of participating in the upside. And learn from your mistakes there. Check out this episode to see what I think of portfolio simulators and how you can use them effectively. If you have any content you are interested in, hit me up @thefemaleinvestors on Instagram and I can see if it is something I can talk about! ********************* The Female Investors Project is a passion project led by Genevieve Hourigan, and is for entertainment and educational purposes only. The views expressed in this podcast are my opinions only and none of the material discussed in this podcast should be taken as financial advice! Please do your own research and consider consulting a professional before making any big decisions with your money. Thanks for listening and supporting The Female Investors, and you can follow me @thefemaleinvestors on Instagram and join the group The Female Investors Community on Facebook.

Hey everyone welcome back to The Female Investors Project. It's been a hot minute but I am back, bringing you lots more investing content to keep you inspired, motivated and informed on your investing journey. My voice is still adapting to recording again and not screaming into a microphone at Karaoke but I am sure I will get it back soon. Today's episode covers a brief overview of what has happened in the markets for January 2022 and a reflection of how my investing has changed over time. If you have any content you are interested in, hit me up @thefemaleinvestors on Instagram and I can see if it is something I can talk about! ********************* The Female Investors Project is a passion project led by Genevieve Hourigan, and is for entertainment and educational purposes only. The views expressed in this podcast are my opinions only and none of the material discussed in this podcast should be taken as financial advice! Please do your own research and consider consulting a professional before making any big decisions with your money. Thanks for listening and supporting The Female Investors, and you can follow me @thefemaleinvestors on Instagram and join the group The Female Investors Community on Facebook.

Hey everyone!! Be prepared for a super insightful conversation with Yolanda covering all things careers in investment management and building your career with intention. If you're interested in finding out more, you can: Check out Yolanda's website and blog here. Check out Future IM/Pact's LinkedIn and website ********************* The Female Investors Project is a passion project led by Genevieve Hourigan, and is for entertainment and educational purposes only. The views expressed in this podcast are my opinions only and none of the material discussed in this podcast should be taken as financial advice! Please do your own research and consider consulting a professional before making any big decisions with your money. Thanks for listening and supporting The Female Investors, and you can follow me @thefemaleinvestors on Instagram and join the group The Female Investors Community on Facebook.

Investing paralysis is 100% a thing, so today I give you a process to follow if you need some guidance in starting! Starting after all is always the hardest part for me. Apologies for the late episode but a long weekend and lifted restrictions left me a bit loopy! ********************* The Female Investors Project is a passion project led by Genevieve Hourigan, and is for entertainment and educational purposes only. The views expressed in this podcast are my opinions only and none of the material discussed in this podcast should be taken as financial advice! Please do your own research and consider consulting a professional before making any big decisions with your money. Thanks for listening and supporting The Female Investors, and you can follow me @thefemaleinvestors on Instagram and join the group The Female Investors Community on Facebook.

When you're keen to learn about investing, its fun, exciting, and you're just thinking about how much money you're going to make... until you have to tell your tax agent about your investments, or even worse when you're getting letter after letter in your mailbox (yes, your physical one) from the ASX. This episode is to take you through some of the admin things you might not have thought of, but should get on top of, as well as giving you my favourite tips to stay organised about my investments and be absolutely sure I have all the materials I need to stay successful in my investing and in any reporting too. Below are some resources that may be useful after listening to this episode. CHESS sponsorship FAQ sheet (from the ASX themselves) P.S. at about minute 15.34 there is an abrupt change in my voice, I forgot to mention something and I needed to re-record late at night before posting loool. Hope y'all enjoy my night voice. ********************* The Female Investors Project is a passion project led by Genevieve Hourigan, and is for entertainment and educational purposes only. The views expressed in this podcast are my opinions only and none of the material discussed in this podcast should be taken as financial advice! Please do your own research and consider consulting a professional before making any big decisions with your money. Thanks for listening and supporting The Female Investors, and you can follow me @thefemaleinvestors on Instagram and join the group The Female Investors Community on Facebook.

Investing is a great tool to build your wealth, but unfortunately, you can't get it for free! There are many costs associated with your investments, and in this episode I break them down for you and talk about what I think of fees. PS - it may not be what you think!! ********************* The Female Investors Project is a passion project led by Genevieve Hourigan, and is for entertainment and educational purposes only. The views expressed in this podcast are my opinions only and none of the material discussed in this podcast should be taken as financial advice! Please do your own research and consider consulting a professional before making any big decisions with your money. Thanks for listening and supporting The Female Investors, and you can follow me @thefemaleinvestors on Instagram and join the group The Female Investors Community on Facebook.

Whether you're new to investing or just sick of only men talking about investing - this podcast is for you. I love talking about all things money, but there is a special place in my heart for investing. Women are the minority of investors in Australia (and globally), and I believe it's time to change this. Every second week I will be talking about all things investing and breaking down the hard stuff so you can sit back, learn something, and then apply what is discussed by doing your own research then investing! If you want more, there are already a bunch of episodes ready for you to listen, or you can join me @thefemaleinvestors on Instagram so we can talk more. I hope you're ready to take your investing knowledge to the next level.

As you trail through a company's details, there is often a lot of focus on management, and rightly so because they are in charge of a company! Right? But who actually is management? The management structure has your executives on one end, and the Board of Directors on the other, that kind of work as a supervisory body to keep executives in check and often can provide some additional expertise and a point of view that management doesn't have. In this episode I take you through management in a bit me detail and give you an overview of how ASX companies are managed, based on my research and my experience. Let me know what you think!! ********************* The Female Investors Project is a passion project led by Genevieve Hourigan, and is for entertainment and educational purposes only. The views expressed in this podcast are my opinions only and none of the material discussed in this podcast should be taken as financial advice! Please do your own research and consider consulting a professional before making any big decisions with your money. Thanks for listening and supporting The Female Investors, and you can follow me @thefemaleinvestors on Instagram and join the group The Female Investors Community on Facebook.

Hey everyone! Joining you today with something new and exciting - an interview! In this episode I am joined by Jodi Pettersen, Investor Relations for eInvest. Join me as we talk about active ETFs, ESG investing and small caps and more! For more info you can check out eInvest, or follow me on instagram @thefemaleinvestors.

After a couple months off, I am bringing you an episode with some insights into some of the struggles I face with non-automated investing. You'll learn about: Some of the newsletters I follow to get ideas about my next investments A high level overview of my investment strategy Timing the market and how I think you can best spend your time as a beginner investor. As always, come follow me on @thefemaleinvestors on instagram to get more regular investing updates and make some topic requests too!

As a beginner, it can be hard to know where to start when it comes to picking an investment. I get ETFs, but there are hundreds!!! Looking into your circle of competence may be your opportunity to narrow down on your options and understand how you can reduce the risk of being wrong by sticking to an area you know well. This doesn't mean you can't take on more risk and explore things outside this area of expertise, whether its an industry or an asset class, but your circle of competence is a good place to keep your money safe.

There is nothing more exciting (in my opinion) than to see what other people's money has looked like in a year, and EOFY is the perfect opportunity to see the investing goals people have smashed. However, if you're still figuring all this out, you might need a little help with your goal-setting, and that's where this episode comes into play! This episode helps you think about investing and your goals and gives you the tools to set some kick-ass goals for you to kick this financial year. You have til June 2022 so give yourself the space and the energy to MAKE. SOME. MONEY. I'm always excited to hear from you so please check out @thefemaleinvestors on instagram to start a conversation, I'm trying to cook up some more technical content for you in FY22!

I remember what it felt like to be completely lost and have no idea how to invest, but now it feels like a breeze (most of the time). You might find that as you start to break down these big concepts we've been looking at, you can start to tackle some of the more refined concepts. Investing is difficult and learning about it properly is super difficult, especially as a woman when there isn't much content catered to us. Well, you know I have you covered. Take this episode as a reminder that even if its hard, you know more than yesterday and it definitely will get easier, and your bank account will probably thank you.

Dividends. Just another way you make money from your investments. There a lots of technical words, like ex-dividend dates (which has nothing to do with breakups) and what the hell is a DRP? Join me in this episode to understand dividends, how companies pay them out and what that means for your portfolio. Spoiler alert: there's some tax talk in here too. But tax can be your friend! If you're listening to The Female Investors Project, why not let your friends know too and tag me in a story where you're listening to the podcast? I would love to hear from you!!!

Analysing a stock is hectic, but it will be such a useful skill to have once you start really getting into the complexities of stock picking. If there is a company you really like, you can start to look at it through the lenses of different analysis techniques to make the most of your investments, and this episode shows you how.

If you're sick of EOFY ads and want to know what end of financial year actually means for companies, you are in the right place. Learn about the corporate calendar, the important dates for companies and the disclosures that come with these days. Most importantly, you will et some insight into how these disclosures actually interact in the real world.

In another very brief episode I come to you by highlighting some key terms that get thrown around in financial media: Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Corporate restructures Leverage I'm working super hard to get some longer episodes to you in the near future, but this stuff needs planning. Reach out to me on insta @thefemaleinvestors if you have any questions or more jargon you want me to bust in the meantime!! As always, this isn't financial advice but a podcast for educational and entertainment purposes only.

Real talk.. I almost didn't release a podcast at all this week, because I was overwhelmed by life in general and didn't feel like I had the "authority" to talk about investing without more research than I had already done. But you know, this same fear is what stopped me from investing in the first place!!! So it's a brief episode where I talk about imposter syndrome and how to overcome (a bit of) it.

Superannuation Guarantee is being increased to 10% as of July 2021, so I thought it would be good to fill you in on what superannuation is and how to treat it like all your other investments. Just because it doesn't hit your bank account, doesn't mean it isn't your money!! In this episode you are going to learn: The three things I look out for when looking at superannuation funds The benefits of superannuation The shorter term benefits of superannuation I hope you learn something new! If you're still HUNGRY for more investing content, check out my insta The Female Investors and the facebook group, too! I promise I will start managing it actively x As always, this podcast is for entertainment and educational purposes only, it is not financial advice.

Growth stocks keep going to the moon while you sit on your ETF portfolio waiting for a 1% increase.. But that's ok, right? Sometimes, the FOMO can be real and you can be torn between: I wish I had gotten into this earlier and am I simply too late? I get this too. I'm still relatively at the beginning of my journey, so in this episode I talk through the emotions that can get to you while investing and how keeping your cool, doing your research and sticking to your strategy will keep you comfortable in the long term. Plus, if you're still not investing, don't worry! It's never too late for that either.

So, as a total newbie navigating the range of work you need to do to feel prepared to be invest can be OVERWHELMING, and not all investing is the same. While I may have touched on some of these in past episodes, a good breakdown of the different strategies lets you think about the ones that might suit your investment needs and habits the most, and allow you to look at other people's investing through the lens of the strategy they use, not just yours. Today you will hear about investing strategies such as: Value investing; Growth investing; Momentum investing; Trading; and Angel investing and venture capital. Don't get me wrong, there are lots more, like dollar cost averaging, margin trading, and some more complex variations of the ones I talk about today, but we'll get a hang of these ones before we broaden our horizons too much! With any questions reach out to me @thefemaleinvestors on instagram, and you'll get daily finance content on there too!

Today's episode is a little shorter, because we talk about how investing can become a habit and how that makes your investing journey easier and more fun. I believe that you can make investing a habit following these three pillars: - having habits that promote good personal finance practices - consuming content through your social media that keep investing front of mind - dedicating time weekly to doing research and brainstorming your strategy and your goals. This podcast breaks down these three pillars and talks about how they will influence your investing. If you like what you heard, come join me and other amazing women in The Female Investors community or follow me on Instagram @thefemaleinvestors, where I post about finance stuff daily.

We've covered a lot of the basics and now it comes down to doing your own research. In previous episodes we've talked about ETFs and the basics of investing, but once you get into the nitty gritty of it, you can't just take any finance guru's word for it. So you need to do your own research. Especially when it comes to investing in stocks. Today's episode breaks down how to do your research from a completely macroeconomic side of things to the research in individual stocks and what some big investors look out for when understanding the strategy of a company they want to invest in. Happy researching! Want more? Join me weekly first thing Monday to learn more about investing, or follow me on instagram @thefemaleinvestors for daily investing content.

You may be able to tell while listening to this episode but... I really love ETFs. And I think you will too, that's why I want to help you learn all about them. Exchange traded funds are super popular investments, especially among beginners, because they are easy, low cost and low risk. But ETFs being easy doesn't mean that you shouldn't know all about them! Figuring them out might just give you the confidence to invest in them. Episode 5 of The Female Investors Project gives you a rundown of all things ETFs, how you know what is right for you, the things you need to consider if you are deciding on whether you should invest into ETFs or stocks. If you still feel like you need to know more after this episode, you will find some Amazing! resources at the following links. Happy investing :) https://www.instagram.com/thefemaleinvestors/ https://www.betashares.com.au/education/etf-basics/ https://www.vanguard.com.au/personal/education-centre/en/education-guides

You have some of the basics now... you can start thinking about how to actually put your money in investments!! Today you'll learn about what a broker does and the key questions you should ask yourself when choosing one.

Time for class?? We'll be learning all about asset classes, what you can invest in and how that ties in to your risk profile.. not all assets are created equal! I'll be barely scratching the surface on some of the asset classes below! Cash Debt Equities Property Commodities Derivatives Cryptocurrencies Alternatives That's a lot to get through, but it breaks down what people are talking about when they say asset classes! We'll have a proper deep dive into some of these assets coming soon, so stay tuned!!!

Learning about investing generally brings up more questions than answers. In the words of the one and only Taylor Swift: the more that you say, the less I know. Today I will share my background when it comes to money and investing and my approach to two of the biggest questions I had when I started out: when can I invest and how much should I invest. After listening to episode 2 of The Female Investors Project you will know: 1. How your personal finances will dictate when you can invest. 2. How the market moves and how it can determine when you invest. 3. What questions to ask yourself to determine the right investing amount for you. As you will learn, investing never has a straightforward answer. But knowing the right questions to ask and being confident in the choices you make will get you ahead. And making mistakes is part of the journey. Want more? Join me weekly on a Sunday to learn more about investing, or follow me on instagram @thefemaleinvestors for daily investing content.

If you have ever considered investing and you still aren't, the problem is probably that you don't want to lose money. That's too risky. Well today I'm telling you about risk, how it changes over time and how learning about investing actually can make it feel like a safer bet. In the introductory episode of the podcast I'm giving you some of the tips that I followed that gave me the confidence to really take my decision to start investing seriously. Want more? Join me weekly on a Sunday to learn more about investing, or follow me on instagram @thefemaleinvestors for daily content.

Have you ever thought: Investing is too hard, I don't know enough. Even if I did know anything about investing, I don't have enough money. Investing now is too risky and unpredictable. Me too! But now that I have started investing, I want to break it down so that anyone can! Join me and learn about investing, the market and how to make your money work for you.