Going to share how I started my investing journey last year in this blog post. Before I started investing, most of my savings were kept in fixed deposits, which as all of us know, gives quite pitiful returns that is lower than the long-term inflation rate. So, I was actually losing the real value of my savings, which is definitely a very bad incentive to save for the future.
I've heard of the stock market before this, but I've never really went to find out more about it. I just had vague ideas of shares being parts of companies, but no idea how they were traded or dividends or rights issues. Over last year, I've also been reading some articles on Business Insider, which cover many topics, but shares was one of them, and I got to know that investing in shares provided good long term returns that on average ......