Smart Investing: a Beginner’s Guide

After throwing in a few investment thought pieces, I will now start the first "workshop" on investment. I plan to write about why, when and how to invest your hard-earned money based on my own experience so far.

Although I have soaked a bunch of finance knowledge in Wall Street, it is not until I started investing for our family fund that I understand the importance of disciplined, smart investing. You can do it, or ask someone to do it. But you can't ignore it. Too much is at stake, my friend.

Introduction

• Smart investing - a way to free yourself and bring your dreams closer
• 10 excuses of not investing and how to tackle it
• Investment: why now?
• Investment: what is a good return?

How to start

• Understanding the investment cycle
• Overview of investment products
• Golden rule of investment: diversify!
• The art of cutting loss

How to grow further

• How to monitor and analyze your investment portfolio
• Further reading