Soldato
What make up of EFT's to hand picked shares to people recommend to get my portfolio going?
100% into one index ETF like VWRL/VEVE.
Spend the next 3 years ish, looking at individual companies, keep notes in a spreadsheet so you can track your how awful your returns would have been if you actually did that. While spending time learning.
After that its time to reconsider if you should go into individual shares, or if you should just stick with the index