Getting your start in the sharemarket

By John Kavanagh
Updated October 26 2012 - 3:08pm, first published October 16 2012 - 10:47am
More than seven million Australians own shares, but many are not actively trading.
More than seven million Australians own shares, but many are not actively trading.

Geoff Walker wanted to invest in the sharemarket but didn't know a lot about how the market worked or about investment strategies. So he started off by buying shares in a listed investment company, a type of managed fund. This allowed him to observe a professional share investor at close quarters and gain some understanding of how it was done.

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