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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Shared Lunch, brought to you by ShaSS.

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Speaker 1: My name is Sonia and I'm the co founder and

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Speaker 1: co here share CS, and we're on a mission to

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Speaker 1: create financial empowerment for everyone. Many people use ETFs or

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Speaker 1: exchange traded funds as a defensive move with market volatility.

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Speaker 2: For some, it also allows.

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Speaker 1: Them to enter the market in a more accessible way. Today,

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Speaker 1: I'm joined and hosted by Bryce from Equity Mates to

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Speaker 1: discuss all things ETFs and what to consider.

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Speaker 2: Before adding them to your portfolio.

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Speaker 1: Before we get started, I'd like to acknowledge the traditional

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Speaker 1: custodians of the land where we come to you from today,

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Speaker 1: the Gettigill people of.

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Speaker 2: The Aura nation, and pay respects to olders past and present.

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Speaker 3: Investing involves the risk you might lose the money you

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Speaker 3: start with. We recommend talking to a licensed financial advisor.

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Speaker 3: We also recommend reading product disclosure documents before deciding to invest.

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Speaker 3: Everything you're about to see and here is current at

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Speaker 3: the time of recording.

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Speaker 2: Welcome Brice, Thanks for having me excited to be here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks for having us anytime. Yeah, So we digging

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Speaker 1: into etifs. But before we get started, can you just

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Speaker 1: what are.

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Speaker 4: They whatf okay. So ETFs think of them like a

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Speaker 4: It's a bundle of investments that you can buy in

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Speaker 4: to use is traditionally, when you were to buy stocks,

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Speaker 4: you would have to choose individual stocks and buy them

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Speaker 4: individually on the stock exchange. You would buy a Commonwealth Bank,

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Speaker 4: you'd buy Woolworths, you'd buy Telstra, for example, three investments,

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Speaker 4: three individual holdings. Think of that like buying banana at

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Speaker 4: wool is, apple and orange. Whereas now you can go

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Speaker 4: in and you can buy the fruit salad, a bucket

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Speaker 4: that has all the fruit cut up and in one

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Speaker 4: in one purchase you can buy a bit of everything,

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Speaker 4: and an ETF is just like that. You can buy

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Speaker 4: of Woolworth in one and trade it just like a

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Speaker 4: stock on the Australian Stock Exchange or exchanges around the world.

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Speaker 1: The other twom you're here and there with the etfss

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Speaker 1: and mixes, can you tell us about how those two connect.

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Speaker 4: So indexes are a way of measuring change. So you

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Speaker 4: would baseline whatever you're trying to measure, and then the

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Speaker 4: index will tell you how that has changed over time.

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Speaker 4: In investing, the indexes are around the world a group

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Speaker 4: measure the change in those stocks. So, for example, the

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Speaker 4: ASEX two hundred is an index of the top largest

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Speaker 4: how that changes. You'll hear Alan Kohler on ABC News

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Speaker 4: two percent today. That means that that measure of all

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Speaker 4: in value. How that relates to an ETF is that

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Speaker 4: ETFs then come along and wrap that index all up

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Speaker 4: buy the change in the ASX two hundred over time.

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Speaker 4: So index ETFs ETFs where what you are investing in

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Speaker 1: Over the last week, while we've seen more of Aaronbistas

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Speaker 1: putting money into ETFs over individual companies as something you've

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Speaker 1: seen as well, you know, why do you think they might.

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Speaker 2: Be the case?

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Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, we've definitely seen it as part of

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Speaker 4: the equitymates community. I even look at the way I've

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Speaker 4: changed my investing strategy over the last sort of ten years,

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Speaker 4: and it is very much now centered around a core

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Speaker 4: ETF index philosophy. I think why that has has become

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Speaker 4: I guess popular is because you know, back in the day,

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Speaker 4: I was trying to be Warren Buffett and find you know,

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Speaker 4: trying to find the hidden gem. But the reality is

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Speaker 4: was I guess a major barrier to a lot of people.

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Speaker 4: The I guess the inclusion or the entry of ETFs

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Speaker 4: they're super low cost. It doesn't cost a lot of

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Speaker 1: It's funny you say, like how you're investing, like behavior

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Speaker 1: I went through that too, where it's like kind of

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Speaker 1: wait a minute, I have a day job like this,

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Speaker 1: And people often say, you know, like send your money

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Speaker 4: It to it investing it and it's hard. Is like

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Speaker 4: money doing good for you while you don't have to

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Speaker 4: of all the money that I've just saved up, I've

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Speaker 4: way that ETFs now allow you to invest just safely confidently,

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Speaker 1: You know, it kind of ties it nicely because it's like,

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Speaker 1: who are ETFs good for?

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Speaker 4: I would argue everyone, like even even you look at

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Speaker 4: and I'm talking like billion dollar hedge fund managers, and

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Speaker 4: they have index ETFs in their portfolios because it's just

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Speaker 4: because it's just such an easy way to make money.

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Speaker 4: And I don't say that it's a given that you

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Speaker 4: make money from them, but it's just it's such a

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Speaker 4: but I think to flip it around, their best for

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Speaker 4: like they have a whole lot of time or knowledge

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Speaker 4: are ETFs available these days that we call one stop

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Speaker 4: to be more than okay. So I think for beginners

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Speaker 4: different types of ETFs that you can start adding to

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Speaker 4: But if someone turns around said ETFs are not for me,

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Speaker 4: then I would really challenge them on why that is,

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Speaker 4: because the data shows that, as I said, over the

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Speaker 4: long time, you can create a very healthy portfolio just

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Speaker 1: Is any disadvantages that you see, maybe not disadvantages, but

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Speaker 1: like some misconceptions perhaps Oh yeah, A lot of people.

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Speaker 4: Think that any ETF is set and forget, And what

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Speaker 4: you are very much bottom draw investments. You can put

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Speaker 4: people then take that sort of concept of set and

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Speaker 4: forget and bottom draw and put it to thematic ETFs,

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Speaker 4: or ETFs that have a leverage tilt to them, or

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Speaker 4: and maybe not a disadvantage. But there are now so

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Speaker 2: Can you be too diversified?

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Speaker 4: You can have too many ETFs? I think, because what

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Speaker 1: And so let's check thematics. Because you've brought that up.

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Speaker 1: What role do themetics play?

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Speaker 4: They're probably one of the more hotter spaces in ETFs

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Speaker 4: Why don't we bucket up stocks that center around a

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Speaker 4: The positives of that are that again I can go

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Speaker 4: room and continuously underperform and clear the dance floor night

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Speaker 4: after night after night. So I don't have a problem

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Speaker 4: with paying for it, but as long as you're getting

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Speaker 4: bang for your buck, really, and what that means is

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Speaker 4: as long as you're getting a better outcome than if

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Speaker 4: a you couldn't do it yourself, but b if it

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Speaker 4: is actually better than investing in low cost index ETFs.

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Speaker 4: I have one managed fund that I use, and they

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Speaker 4: charge a one point five management fee one point five percent,

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Speaker 4: which in these day and age is quite high. But

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Speaker 4: that is for a small cap manager for global small

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Speaker 4: cap funds for small cap companies. And that's an area

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Speaker 4: of the market that I know I will never have

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Speaker 4: expertise in and I will never have the time to

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Speaker 4: scour for the largest manufacturer of door hinges in Norway.

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Speaker 2: And there's also not a lot of like analyst coverage.

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Speaker 3: Door handle exactly.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I'm just like, I will never be able

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Speaker 4: to play in that game, but I and so I'm

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Speaker 4: prepared to pay a higher fee to get that expertise

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Speaker 4: as long as they show that they can continuously deliver

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Speaker 4: good performance. What I'm not prepared to pay for is

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Speaker 4: someone to say I'm going to actively manage the top

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Speaker 4: ASX two hundred because the reality is statistically only fifteen

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Speaker 4: percent of fund managers can do better than if I

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Speaker 4: was just to buy the entire index myself, and so

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Speaker 4: then I have to try and find the fifteen percent

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Speaker 4: that can beat it, Choose one of them and hope

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Speaker 4: that they can continue to do it. So don't be

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Speaker 4: scared of high fees. You'll often find thematic ETFs have

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Speaker 4: higher fees, and to your point, it's because people actually

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Speaker 4: doing things there. They're creating the ETFs, they're managing the

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Speaker 4: underlying system making decisions. So it doesn't mean that it's bad,

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Speaker 4: but if you're paying a high fee, you need to

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Speaker 4: have an expectation that you're going to get your money's worth.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like one of the first because we've got

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Speaker 1: some managed funds on the platform on Cheesy's and one

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Speaker 1: of the first ones we had was.

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Speaker 2: As a responsible envestment manager, and.

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Speaker 1: That's one of those where it's actually like really hard

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Speaker 1: to get good information about response and it means something

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Speaker 1: different to everyone. So it's like, actually, use is a

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Speaker 1: management fee there, but someone's doing that work, and that

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Speaker 1: work is actually really hard.

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Speaker 4: To do, and particularly in that space, to your point,

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Speaker 4: very hard to do. Like responsible investing can mean a

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Speaker 4: thousand different things, and the opaqueness in that industry alone, well,

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Speaker 4: in that investment sort of universe, you've got to be

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Speaker 4: very clear on and your research needs to be so thorough.

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Speaker 4: But that you know, paying someone to do that for you,

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Speaker 4: you know, I think sort of makes sense.

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Speaker 1: So before we kind of close out on ETFs, what's

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Speaker 1: one thing you'd love people to know?

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Speaker 4: I think there's one. There's something for everyone. Is the

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Speaker 4: main thing, And no matter where you are on your

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Speaker 4: investing journey, like ETF should or could play a very

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Speaker 4: big part in your portfolio. But if you are in

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Speaker 4: that early stage and you are feeling confused and overwhelmed

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Speaker 4: with where to start. You don't want to be picking

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Speaker 4: individual company, you don't want to be picking individual stocks,

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Speaker 4: then this is the world to be playing in, and

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Speaker 4: that you can have a very very successful investing journey

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Speaker 4: by only investing in one or two ets that just

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Speaker 4: track global stock markets, because at the end of the day,

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Speaker 4: like the returns that that gives statistically is more than

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Speaker 4: enough to build a healthy portfolio and far better than

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Speaker 4: a lot of the professionals can do. So if you're

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Speaker 4: feeling like you want to get started, then then this

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Speaker 4: is absolutely the place to be playing yeah, yeah, fair enough.

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Speaker 1: And then so what's coming up for you, what's exciting

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Speaker 1: you at the moment, and what sneaks for equity makes

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Speaker 1: our goal?

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Speaker 4: Our mission is just to continue educating as many people

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Speaker 4: as possible about how you can build wealth in the

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Speaker 4: stock market. You don't know, if you're feeling priced out

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Speaker 4: of property, if you're feeling like overwhelmed and you're feeling

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Speaker 4: like you're behind, I think, a you're probably not, but

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Speaker 4: and there a lot of other people sort of feeling

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Speaker 4: like that, but be there are ways that you can

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Speaker 4: start feeling more confident with what you're doing. And so

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Speaker 4: I guess our mission is really just to continue doing that,

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Speaker 4: continue growing reaching all different people across Australia in as

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Speaker 4: many ways as possible. We've got our two main shows

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Speaker 4: that we think sort of no matter where you are

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Speaker 4: on your investing journey will cater for you. So yeah,

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Speaker 4: that's what's next. I would love to say that we've

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Speaker 4: got global expansion plans or something like that, but really

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Speaker 4: it's just to continue doing what we're doing and trying

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Speaker 4: to educate as many as strands as possible about the

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Speaker 4: power of building wealth and stock market.

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Speaker 1: Yeah awesome, Well thanks hes for chatting, and thanks for

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Speaker 1: hosting us here anytime.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back to Got the Lights. Yeah that was fun.

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Speaker 4: I really enjoyed it.

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