"Never invest in the stock market"

"It's way too risky. Instead, work hard, save money, and keep it nice and safe in the bank"

That's all I knew from the stock market when...

I was living in New York when I first read Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg when the book came out in 2013.

Saying that this book on gender equality in the...

I will be honest with you: when I started investing years ago, I did not know what ESG investing really was.

And once I more or less understood what it meant, it did not exactly figure on my...

A couple of weeks ago, I did a presentation at EY, a company I used to work for in New York and which provides advisory, assurance, tax, and transaction services around the world.

As I...

“A few years ago, I started investing with USD 20,000.

Like everyone, I asked myself: “how much money do you need to start investing?”

At that time, I really wanted to get...

If you are a beginner investor or interested in becoming one, then you first need to understand what the stock market really is and learns the basics of how the stock market works.

Simply...

“These women issues don’t apply to me.” This is what I believed until my late twenties. I also felt very confident about my financial security.

Everything had gone pretty...

At the end of November 2015, I bought stocks from Alibaba, a prominent Chinese conglomerate, and by now the world’s largest e-commerce company.

At that time, I had never...

Wondering how to start investing and become a confident investor? 

A few days ago, I was discussing passive investing with a couple of neighbors during our annual neighborhood party.

And so we spent time discussing what is probably the most critical topic...