Smart Investing with Nosa Nosakhare M. Ugiagbe

In this episode, I had a really exciting conversation with one of the rockstar investment professionals I know, Obumneme Okonkwo.Obum is a private equity investment professional at one of Africa's largest investment firms, African Capital Alliance (ACA). We talked about his experience in private equity, his mindset shift from consulting to the private equity world, the current investment environment, a potential market downturn and outlook for the future.This was a really long episode, but the conversation was really insightful, so I decided not to make any edits / cuts. I hope you enjoy it.

In this episode, I talk about one of the most important types of investments - Investment in quality education - with Dami Olagunju.Dami is a Global Process Manager - Finance Operations at Google and an Alumna of the Harvard Business School. She also has some experience working in investment Banking and in Private Equity, and is the Founder of the Lagos Young Professionals Innovation Club (LYPIC).Dami talks about her career journey leading up to going to the Harvard Business School, her journey through business school with respect to financing, her work experience so far, as well as her future aspirations.

In this episode, I explain why stock-picking or investing in specific securities is not an optimal investing strategy (compared to investing in ETFs), especially for individual investors. I also talk through the individual securities in my portfolio and explain my rational for holding these securities, despite my position against stock picking.

Heeeeeey, I'm back!In this episode, I discuss:
stock splits, using Tesla as a case study;
Tesla's current valuation and its perceived overvaluation;
an easy way to know when a stock is cheap or expensive (relative to other / similar companies in the same industry) based on its share price, using the P/E ration; 
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In this episode, I discuss my rationale for investing in five different securities in the Healthcare / Pharma, Tech / Data, Fintech / VC sectors. 
EXASOL AG (Germany)
German Startups Group (Germany) 
Sensyne Health (UK)
Vivoryon Therapeutics (Germany)
Amigo Holdings(UK)
I also discuss the performance of each of these five securities. They returned between -16% and +125% in the period I have held them (about two weeks).I then go on to discuss the concept of Hindsight bias and how it affects investment decisions, as well as recommendations for coping with hindsight bias as an investor.Feel free to reach out to me on:
LinkedIn (Nosakhare M. ugiagbe)
Twitter (@NosaMUgiagbe)
Instagram (Nosa_ugiagbe)  
Blog / Website (https://www.nosaugiagbe.com/)

This episode discusses the relationship between risk and returns as it relates to investments. It begins by explaining two major components of returns - income (dividend / interest) and capital gains. It then moves on to talk about risk, differentiating systematic risk from unsystematic risk and how both affect returns.Finally, the episode shows a practical way to think about expected or required returns as compensation for different components of risk, explaining each component at length. The risk/return components discussed include:a). real risk-free rate (compensation for forgoing current consumption to a future single-period date)b). compensation for expected inflation ratec). maturity premium (compensation for extended duration and exposure to interest rate risk)d). liquidity period (compensation for potential loss of value due to illiquidity)e). credit spread (compensation for the possibility of default and the extent of loss in the event of a default)f). equity risk premium (compensation for taking up additional risk associated with equity securities vs fixed income securities)g). Others - (country risk premium, currency, tax, etc.)Thinking about risk and returns in this manner would make it easier to understand and evaluate the returns due to certain investment products and why certain investments may not be appropriate for you, despite having higher returns.