Hey all! I'm intending to start dabbling in some investments in a few things rather than simply have my savings sit doing nothing... Already have a little bit tied up in Crypto long term, looking into P2P stuff but it seems like a bad time to try and get into that, so want to start looking into stocks/shares, excuse what a noob I am but would love some advice as I don't know a lot about it... Based on research I have been doing I was thinking about two things:
- Opening a Vanguard account and putting some money into a few funds/indexes (thinking S&P 500 but maybe others)
- Maybe pick up some speculative shares in a few specific companies I think might do well over the next 5 - 10 years...
The Vanguard thing sounds fairly straightforward, but the second one I'm slightly confused by the steps. If a company says they're listed on a specific exchange (say Nex for example) then that exchange has a list of brokers, do you just get in contact with one of those (e.g. Barclays is listed for Nex) and open some sort of investing account then ask them directly to purchase shares in company X?