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How To Buy Your First Share

Owain Bennallack talks to Motley Fool UK’s Stuart Watson and Jill Ralph about taking the plunge into investing.

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Owain Bennallack
Owain is a magpie of the investing world -- and not because he gets into a flap. Almost any style of investing might suit him, depending on the bigger picture, and he's held all sorts of companies. Paraphrasing Keynes, he says: “When the market changes, I change my mind -- what do you do?” That said, Owain is usually a buyer of equities, where he prefers lightly geared, modestly rated companies, and is increasingly on the lookout for Buffett-style intangible quality. He aspires to buy-and-hold: his best investment ideas are worth much more than he sold them for. Then again, his worst investment went bust due to management fraud!
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The Motley Fool crew go back to basics this week to explain how to buy your first share. Where do you do it? How do you do it? What does it cost? And do you need to wear special red braces and shout “Buy, Buy, Buy!” down a telephone to make the trade? (Sneak preview: No!) Owain Bennallack gets the answers to these questions and more from podcast veteran Stuart Watson and — making her debut appearance in the podcast studio — Jill Ralph, the boss of the Motley Fool UK.

 

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