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  • 1. What is a share of equity?
  • 2. Investing in individual companies is risky
  • 3. Diversification greatly reduces the risks while keeping the return high
  • 4. If you don’t have a 10-15 year investment horizon, then you shouldn’t own shares
  • 5. The market is very efficient and the price is right most of the time
  • 6. Fund managers almost never beat the market and are eating your lunch
  • 7. ETFs provide a great and low-cost alternative to actively managed funds
  • 8. 80% of your portfolio performance is determined by asset class allocation, not selecting individual shares
  • 9. Don’t buy what you don’t understand
  • 10. Once you have an equity portfolio, rather than going to sleep for 10 years, you should keep an eye on it

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