What are stocks and shares? Introducing Big Money Questions - and a lot of enlightening answers
This is Money Podcast
This is Money
4.1 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2017
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
‘If you've ever wondered how you get triangles from a cow,’ sang British music legends Half Man Half Biscuit, ‘you need butter milk and cheese and an equilateral chain saw. ‘
It’s obvious when you know the answer!
But what about the stuff you think you know the answers to… but do you? Really? The Big Money Questions.
That’s the name of our fortnightly video presentation with Rachel Rickard Straus and a host of exceptional guests from the worlds of economics, business, the City and the bookshelves.
In a departure from our usual round-up of the week’s money events, this week we introduce you to an audio version of the show.
The question: What are stocks and shares?
And related…
What’s the difference between a stock and a share?
Is that different from a bond?
Why do they exist?
Why are they different prices?
What makes the prices move?
How do you know if it’s worth buying them?
Dividends? Huh?
Forget the cheese - this stuff is whey too important to ignore.
Listen, learn, enjoy.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Simon Lambert and this is the This Is Money podcast, except this week it comes with a twist. |
| 0:05.9 | Instead of our usual show, digesting the money news of the week and what it means for you, |
| 0:10.1 | we'd like to take the opportunity to introduce you to another great This Is Money show. |
| 0:14.5 | It's a video show called The Big Money Questions and in it our personal finance editor, Rachel Rickard Strauss, |
| 0:20.5 | goes on the trail of |
| 0:21.4 | what those things from the world of money really mean. With the help of a string of economists, |
| 0:26.2 | investors and experts, Rachel has delivered shows explaining why interest rates matter, |
| 0:30.5 | what inflation means, whether a world without work would be better, and how to prepare |
| 0:34.7 | for a hundred-year life. It's a fascinating look into the concepts that |
| 0:38.5 | shape how we live, but we never really think about. To introduce you to the show, we took the |
| 0:43.8 | opportunity to put out a big money questions as this week's podcast. And it looks at a phrase we see |
| 0:48.6 | all the time. Stocks and shares. Have you ever wondered what that actually means? Rachel enlisted |
| 0:54.1 | the help of Victoria |
| 0:55.0 | Hasler, head of research at Square Mile Investment Consulting and Research, to explain what that official but |
| 1:00.6 | archaic stocks and shares name means. The big money question show is coming up in a minute. Please |
| 1:06.1 | give it a listen. Tell us what you think by email to editor at this ismoneys.co.uk or on This Is Money's Twitter feed or Rachel's at Rachel underscore Spike. |
| 1:14.9 | We'll be back with the regular podcast next week. And if you haven't already, please subscribe at iTunes, Acast or audio boom. |
| 1:21.5 | And now on with the show. Enjoy the big money questions. |
| 1:25.8 | Welcome to the Big Money Questions show. |
| 1:28.3 | I'm Rachel Rickard Strauss, personal finance editor at This Is Money. |
| 1:31.3 | This week, stocks and shares, what are they? |
| 1:34.3 | We talk about them all the time, almost interchangeably, |
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