In this episode, Ato speaks with Andrew Craig, best-selling finance author of “How to Own The World, a financial educator of 13 years and founder of personal finance website: Plain English Finance and Debodun Osekita, former trader at Goldman Sachs, founder of stock pickers academy and investing coach. We discuss: - Passive Investing vs Active Investing in the stock market - Global Index Funds vs S&P 500 Index Funds - Should Crypto be part of your investing portfolio? - Future opportunities in the stock market - How to achieve financial freedom in the stock market and much more 🔗 Connect with Andrew: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewcraigpef/ Website: https://plainenglishfinance.co.uk Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/plainenglishfinance 🔗 Connect with Debodun: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stockpickersacademy Instagram personal: https://www.instagram.com/coachdebs.spa 📩 Sign up to my mailing list to be the first to know about upcoming events: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://eepurl.com/hJEcLL⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 💼 What's in The Wallet Submit any question anonymously and it may get answered in future episodes. Drop your question here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tally.so/r/w5gzdE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🤝 Partners 📚Coursera - Learn AI, Cybersecurity, Project Management, Data Science & more with the education platform that I use: ⁠⁠⁠https://imp.i384100.net/savvywallet⁠⁠⁠ Some of the links are affiliate links which means that we will receive a small commission if you make a purchase, however there will be no additional charge to you. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Preview 1:24 - Intro 1:35 - Meet Investing Expert & Author, Andrew Craig 2:55 - Meet Former Goldman Sachs Trader, Debodun Osekita 4:30 - What you NEED to know about investing 10:50 - Stocks vs Index Funds/ETFS: Which is the smartest path to build wealth? 13:41 - Single stock investing is a degree worth of knowledge 19:34 - Single stock investing is like trading! 19:48 - Buying and holding an investment is lazy 21:32 - 8-10% return is life changing for most people 35:08 - Where is single stock investing ranked? 39:46 - 80% of people have lost money in crypto 43:25 - Are Goldman Sachs, Blackrock, JP Morgan embracing Crypto? 47:16 - Andrew Craig’s stance on Crypto  48:57 - Stock market contributes wealth to the economy Crypto doesn’t  58:54 - Global index funds vs S&P 500  1:05:07 - Will the S&P 500 stop returning 10% a year? 1:06:21 - The FTSE ALL share (UK) will outperform the S&P 500 (US) 1:09:38 - Future opportunities in investing  1:10:24 - How to achieve financial freedom from the stock market? 1:14:00 - Final words Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices