Investing 101

Congrats, you have made the decision to invest. Now, where do you start? The amount of information can we overwhelming, so here below are a couple of links to help you get started.

Brokers:

Important to check with brokers are the fees (both in $ dollar and in % of the value of the transaction), e.g. of brokers are Interactive Brokers, De Giro, Charles Swap, Morgan Stanley, Fidelity, a good article from Investopedia that goes into picking your first broker.

Books:

• Stock investing for Dummies

• The Intelligent Investor

• Warren Buffett Accounting book

• Seeking Wisdom – From Darwin to Munger

Education:

• Investopedia

• Morningstar Investing Classroom

• Warren Buffett video series

Financial news:

• Bloomberg.com

• Wall Street Journal

• Financial Times

• The Economist

• New York Times

• CNBC

• Fox Business

Podcast:

• The Investors Podcast

• Bloomberg’s Masters in Business with Barry Ritholtz

• Invest Like the Best

Stock trackers:

• Morningstar

• MSN Money

• Yahoo Finance

• Bloomberg

• ..(there are a lot of apps, pick the one you prefer)

Youtube:

• How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio

• William Ackman: Everything You Need to Know About Finance and Investing

• Aswath Damodaran

• Charlie Munger: The Psychology of Human Misjudgement

Websites:

• cornerofberkshireandfairfax.ca

• The Motley Fool

• Seeking Alpha

• http://www.wikinvest.com/

• http://www.morningstar.com/