How should you start investing?
When and how to invest, index funds, accounts.
Axis: start early with index funds, even small sums … wait until you have a lot
Answers by date: 1 record in 1 source, newest first; the answers above are the current ones. The advice was refined (2020), never reversed, in these records.
| date | who | answer | source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-10-11 (said on 2020-10-08, implied) | Ali | The advice most people give beginners, which Ali passes on, is to invest in index funds rather than individual stocks. | How to Invest for Beginners 00:09:02 |
Background
| date | how | answer | source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-05-07 | background | With a million pounds, Ali would put half in an S&P 500 investment ISA and a quarter in Bitcoin, still betting on it despite his Bitcoin losses, and buy his mum a house. (hypothetical) | Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student 00:12:10 |
Dates are upload dates, which set the order. Where the speaker gives a different recording date in the video, it is added as "said on YYYY-MM-DD, implied" (derived from the date said in the video).
Timeline notes
- Ali: first recorded event is refine (earlier stance may be outside 2016–2024 or unrecorded)