Ego, Author at MoneyRise

A Beginner’s Guide to Rise

What is Rise? Rise is a product that connects Nigerians to foreign investment opportunities by offering Fixed Income securities, Real Estate, and stocks. Several stock investment options exist in the Nigerian market, but they only offer stock options. We do two things…

The Principle Of Buying When Others Are Selling

Data from matrotrends.com | Analysis by Rise The image above is the historical stock price movement of Apple in the last 5 years adjusted for all stock splits. If you draw a line from the origin to the current position (as we’ve…

Finance Investment by Ego September 18, 2020

The Goal of Investing

Everyone feels cheated when they get to the market and the price of rice has increased without an equivalent increase in the quality or quantity of the rice. We make remarks like "Nawa oo", "what's the meaning of all these now", "why…

Stocks by Ego September 3, 2020

A Short Note on Wealth

We are always thinking about wealth creation and one thing we believe is except you define what wealth is to you, you will have a hard time having it and an even harder time finding a path that leads to it. Below,…

Stocks by Ego May 28, 2020

How to Decide Which Asset Class is Best for You

An asset class is a broad group of securities or investments with similar financial characteristics. In unpredictable times as today, one of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing which asset class to invest in for you to earn reasonable…

Stocks by Ego May 4, 2020

Investing As A Student: Five Ways to Get Started

While there are a lot of guides on investing out there, there isn’t a lot of them that specifically teach students how to invest. We wouldn’t blame them though. One reason might be that students don’t have much income and always need…

Finance by Ego April 21, 2020

Investment Fraud and How To Protect Yourself

Fraud isn’t new and can be dated as far back as the 1920s. A con artist named Charles Ponzi defrauded many Americans by promising unbelievable returns from a strange scheme where he was using new investors’ money to pay off existing investors. …

Investment Stocks by Ego February 28, 2020

How Corona Virus Is Impacting Global Markets

The coronavirus infection has been spreading across the world since the inability to contain it within China. It has since affected several countries across South East Asia, and cases have been identified in 44 countries in total, including Egypt and Algeria. 81,000…

Stocks by Ego February 27, 2020

How Recessions Can Make You Rich

Fortunes, they say, are made during recessions. Naturally, your first question would be — how? When you open your stocks portfolio and your investments are down, by a lot, it is understandable to ask ‘how in the world does this help me?’…

Stocks by Ego February 19, 2020

How To Think About Risk and Returns

There’s a lot of misconception about risks and earning returns in investment. Some people say we want to get returns but we don’t want to take risks while some say we need to make returns but we want guaranteed returns. In this…