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If your budgets and savings goals leave a little cashflow over each month, investing is one of a handful of things worth understanding. This page is here to help you learn — not to sell you anything.
What is investing?
At its simplest, investing is exchanging money today for a claim on future cash flows — a slice of a business, a loan to a company or government, or a bundle of those things. Prices matter, but the real question is always what am I paying for what I'm getting?
Shares & ETFs
Buying a slice of a business (or a bundle of them) in exchange for a share of what they produce over time.
Bonds
Lending money to a government or company for a fixed period, in exchange for interest payments.
Super
Your compulsory retirement savings — already an investment account. It's worth understanding how it's invested inside.
Why some people invest
Outpacing inflation
Cash slowly loses purchasing power. Productive assets have historically kept up with prices over long periods — though never in a straight line.
Compounding
Reinvested returns earn their own returns. The longer the horizon, the more this matters — and the less any individual year does.
Matching horizon to goal
Money you don't need for ten years can afford to sit somewhere different than money you need in six months.
Past returns are not guarantees. Investments can and do go down — that's the reason they can, on average, offer higher returns than a savings account.
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Discounted Cash Flow (DCF)
How we estimate intrinsic value from future cash.
Return on Equity
A signal of capital efficiency and competitive advantage.
The Balance Sheet
What the business owns, owes, and is left with.
The Cash Flow Statement
Where the cash actually goes — and why FCF matters.
The Income Statement
Revenue, expenses, profit — and the margins between.
Price-to-Earnings
A quick read on what the market is paying for earnings.