If you want to balance risk and return, then you can vary the mix of stocks and bonds in your portfolio. But how do you go about choosing the funds, how many funds do you need, and how can you implement the strategy cheaply on Trading 212? In this video, we answer those questions and provide a starting point so that you can build and adjust your own multi-asset portfolios inspired by Vanguard’s LifeStrategy funds. Below you can find links to the public Pies used in the video: 📎 AssetMix 20 – https://www.trading212.com/pies/l7rG716ZJqLWY5jgjUopod9y5TGh 📎 AssetMix 40 – https://www.trading212.com/pies/l7rG716ZJqLWY5jgjUopode7WLXj 📎 AssetMix 60 – https://www.trading212.com/pies/l7rG716ZJqLWY5jgjUopodectg2A 📎 AssetMix 80 – https://www.trading212.com/pies/l7rG716ZJqLWY5jgjUopodeeLYqj 📎 AssetMix […]
What is an ISA and when should you use one? Individual Savings Accounts are really important products or ‘wrappers’. Once you understand how they work and the tax advantages of using them, they can be a really useful tool for building your wealth into the future. Get 1% cashback on all ISA deposits throughout the 23/24 tax year: https://www.trading212.com/isa The offer is valid for new clients who sign up before the end of April 2023. Conditions apply. ⏳ Timestamps ⏳ 0:00 – Intro 1:21 – What is an ISA? 1:58 – What taxes can you save? 4:14 – The different types of ISAs available 5:26 – An introduction to the […]
Commodities provide diversification for standard stocks and bond portfolios and so they can be a valuable part of portfolios. But buying commodities is not easy and requires some knowledge of how commodity funds work. In this video, we provide you with a description of different commodities and commodity funds, what drives their prices and how to choose commodity funds. ⏳ Timestamps ⏳ 0:00 – Intro 0:37 – What are commodities? 2:26 – What is а roll cost? 4:00 – What drives commodity prices? 5:49 – How to choose the most suitable commodity fund? Our Investing 101 series covers the fundamentals of investing and tries to bring you the basics to […]
What is the difference between trading and investing? In some ways similar but perhaps more different than you might think. The objective is the same, to grow your money, but which should you choose? 🕰 Timestamps 🕰 0:00 – Intro 1:46 – Sprint vs Marathon 3:17 – Time 4:39 – Technical analysis 8:22 – Risk Our Investing 101 series covers the fundamentals of investing and tries to bring you the basics to build a solid foundation. Let us know in the comments about future topics you would like to see covered in these videos. Visit us at https://trading212.com Download our free mobile apps for iOS or Android: https://trading212.com/GetTheApp Tom’s personal […]
Many people who are new to investing think that it involves choosing single stocks that will surge in value. A more reliable route to investing success is to build a portfolio that does well whatever economic conditions it encounters. This is by choosing diversified streams of return with different asset classes, which might include stocks, bonds, commodities and real estate. Low-fee funds for all of these are available on Trading 212, so in this video, we show some of the possibilities. Here’s the full list of the mentioned instruments: Equity funds • Amundi Prime Global DR (Dist) (PRIW) 👉 https://www.trading212.com/trading-instruments/invest/PRIW.GB • Lyxor Core MSCI World DR (Acc) (LCWL) 👉 https://www.trading212.com/trading-instruments/invest/LCWL.GB […]
We’ll talk about diversification, Warren Buffett’s famous Berkshire Hathaway portfolio, as well as the academic study that thought it had this question answered only later to be challenged. Some people only have a handful, some people use funds to hold hundreds and hundreds. In this video, we will weigh up the opportunity cost of diversification against the advantages of spreading your bets. 0:00 – Intro 1:47 – The Birthday Paradox 4:19 – Downside to diversification 5:50 – Buying the haystack 6:53 – Allocate your capital according to your conviction Some interesting links and further reading on the topic: ‘Some Studies of Variability of Returns on Investments in Common Stocks’ by […]
