{"id":721844,"date":"2023-10-02T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=721844"},"modified":"2023-10-02T09:28:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T07:28:45","slug":"business-talk-psg-head-of-securities-wendy-myers-explains-how-to-start-investing-in-the-stock-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/721844\/business-talk-psg-head-of-securities-wendy-myers-explains-how-to-start-investing-in-the-stock-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 PSG Head of Securities Wendy Myers explains how to start investing in the stock market"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this Business Talk with Michael Avery interview, Wendy Myers &#8211; Head of Securities at PSG \u2013 explains how to start investing in the stock market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Myers is a qualified Chartered Accountant with over 20 years of experience in the financial and investment industries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has been a member of the South African Institute of Stockbrokers since 2000 and was previously the Chief Operating Officer for FNB Wealth and Investments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Myers also boasts 10 years of experience working as a Global Markets Finance Business Partner for Rand Merchant Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The interview<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In this interview, Myers details the best way to start investing and explains how a new investor should structure their investment portfolio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Myers then discusses the common risks associated with investing in equities and explains how financial advisors help investors manage these risks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She concludes the interview by offering advice to new investors and detailing what to look out for when starting out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the full interview with Wendy Myers below.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j3dYAQEhdq0?si=VpQwjv-_V5tueev-\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy Myers boasts over 20 years of experience in the finance industry and has a deep knowledge of all things investing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":718702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121],"tags":[4671],"class_list":["post-721844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-psg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721844"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":721850,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721844\/revisions\/721850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}