Rob Gilmour is a wealth manager helping private clients to understand their money choices. He’s a self-confessed financial nerd and offers a range of skills from accounting and law to financial planning.

We discuss:

How the actual mechanics of share trading haven’t really changed for many decades even though paper share certificates and graph paper aren't used any more.

Own a share and you own a part of a company.

How easy it can be to get caught up in hype around a share.

The classic text about share trading - Reminisces of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre a thinly disguised biography of Jesse Livermore who was one of the greatest share traders ever.

Managed Funds, ETFs and LICs what do they mean?

Rob's website is https://wealthsimplicity.com/ if you'd like to have a chat. Don't forget to mention this podcast if you get in touch.

Here's a link to the blog post https://www.sharesforbeginners.com/blog/rob-gilmour-wealth-simplicity

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