Anyone know anything about investing?

Dr Coppelius

Dr Coppelius

Dr Coppelius

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I don't.

A colleague pushed a thing towards me called Seedrs, which is a way of investing very small amounts of money into new, companies that may or may not die, or alternatively may or may not become big. The idea is that all the little investments are aggregated into a stake more like something a venture capitalist would invest.

Is that sensible? It seems kind of like having a flutter on the horses without any kind of course book, although I suppose, since you don't have to invest more than a tenner if you don't want to, you could treat it as a sort of expensive pinball machine.
 
If you don't really understand it, stay away from it. Try to invest your money somewhere that you understand and your chances of success will be much better.
 
big risks, small gains, long term investment. Sounds like a win win to me !

At least for who ever runs venture company and scrapes off 5% profit.
 
If you know nothing about investing then you should not be straying from premium bonds or bank accounts. As you move further away from those the risks increase exponentially. Given you dont know much about investing the idea you're friend has given you is even worse than horse racing since you don't have the benefit of odds to pick a winner. Avoid, unless you have money to burn or want to pretend you're Peter Jones.
 
Personally I would recommend putting investment savings into really low management fee mutual funds/ETFs that follow a broad index.

If you want to see an advisor then look for one that is fee only and avoid the commission sales guys who pretend to be advisors.
 
Registered to take a look. Seems they haven't even launched yet. Would take a 'wait and see' approach. I would view it as similar to kickstarter but you might get a return on any profits.
 
It's FSA registered, so it's not a scam, although I do accept this comment:
Energizer Bunny said:
If you know nothing about investing then you should not be straying from premium bonds or bank accounts. As you move further away from those the risks increase exponentially. Given you dont know much about investing the idea you're friend has given you is even worse than horse racing since you don't have the benefit of odds to pick a winner. Avoid, unless you have money to burn or want to pretend you're Peter Jones.
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Yeah, fair enough! :)

If anyone is curious about the startups on offer and has some investment nous, they're now available to view: http://seedrs.com/browse_startups
 
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