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Past performance does not guarantee future performance and the value of investments can fall as well as rise. No investment strategy is without risk and markets influence investment performance. Investment markets and conditions can change rapidly. Strategies or products can lose money as well as gain. All investors should consider investing only if they can accept the risks associated with investing including a loss of invested capital. No investor should invest without a thorough reading of the risk factors associated with each investment strategy in official documentation provided for each fund or strategy. Investors with questions should additionally seek independent investment advice tailored to their needs, circumstances, and risk tolerances.

1. Investing vs trading: what's the difference?
2. Top 5 tips you must know before investing
3. Investing for growth or dividend income?
4. How to build a portfolio
5. Sharpening your investment edge
6. Tutorial: how to buy shares on SelfWealth

Now it's time to get started! If you have any questions, you can talk to us during trading hours on the main website, selfwealth.com.au.

The first video, brought to you by Rask Australia covers some key terminology that you need to understand before you start your investment journey.

The 5 essential things all investors need to know before investing in shares. Learn more about key tax concepts and other important terms. Always seek advice from a tax accountant.

Over the long-term, most people invest in shares for these reasons. What is value investing? Learn more!

So you've got your brokerage account set-up. What's next?

If you do the average thing you'll get average results. 

So you've got your broker account ready. Now, how do you actually buy the shares you want to buy? We cover that on in a short video. Read the full article to understand what types of investments you can buy.

We've partnered with investor education organisation, Rask Australia. Rask Australia is a diversified investment advice, news, research, financial education, podcast and money network which is Australian-owned and created in Melbourne. Rask was founded in 2017 by Owen Raszkiewicz, originally to provide financial and investment education to the majority of Australians and Kiwis who go without. 

SelfWealth and Rask Australia are on a similar mission: to make investing more accessible to Australians. Rask Australia aims to have 10,000 students enrolled in their free finance courses. After viewing these videos you can enrol at Rask.com.au.

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SelfWealth, which is listed on the ASX (ASX:SWF), is Australia's most popular low-cost broker and continues to innovate and deliver value to Australian investors. No hidden fees and over 50,000 active investors use SelfWealth.

Your holdings are held on your own individual HIN, meaning you own the shares directly. You can move brokers very easily with your own HIN. Your cash is held in a trust account with you as the beneficial owner and is covered by the government guarantee. Learn more about the guarantee.

SelfWealth is the highest rated online broker, on both TrustPilot and ProductReview.com.au. The simple interface lets you do what you need to do with ease, without distracting jargon.

SelfWealth is planning to launch US trading for the same flat-fee $9.50 USD per trade. Access a large selection of US stocks with your US cash wallet, in the same place as the ASX.

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All financial products involve risk. Past performance is not a reliable indication of future performance. Before taking any action in relation to any financial product, you should ensure that you understand the specific risks involved and the suitability of acquiring those risks, including your abilities in respect of managing those risks.

Investing in certain financial products (e.g. shares and other securities including their derivatives) carries a high level of risk as you may incur losses up to the total of your original investment and in the case of some derivatives products, losses that exceed your original investment.

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