Iām working with a couple of journalists at the moment on a story and theyāre keen to speak with one of our customers. Theyāre particularly interested in speaking with someone in their early to mid 20s and ideally someone who has either had great or terrible performance (journalists love extremes ).
Theyāre particularly interested in understanding how you approach investing, what your strategy/research process might be, and what your objectives are.
Considering 2020 was quite volatile, Iād also imagine theyāre keen to understand how you dealt with periods when your portfolio might have fluctuated in value.
If youāre interested in chatting a bit more, drop me a DM. They want to have a conversation by Friday, 8 January and in the article, theyāll use your name, age, and typically some detail about the industry you work in.
The journalist writes the āmillennial investorā column and I tried to reason with her that some āmillennialsā are now 40, but she was hearing none of it!
Iād be happy to have a chat, mid 20s completely new to investing with a 35% money weighted increase/100% time weighted increase since May assuming these figures strike the target theyāre looking for?
I know quite a few people who made returns in the market last year which at current interest rates would have taken over 100 years to achieve in the bank. When you think about it that way, investing and compounding in equities makes a lot of sense. None of those mates are in their 20s though
Iām 26 with a money weighted return of 38.95%. My time weighted return is 13.61% (quite low due to planning for potential redundancy earlier this year).
Iām happy for them to use my name, age & industry but Iād like not to say much Iāve invested.
Iām a wee bit older than mid-20s, but did reasonably well through the pandemic. Happy to help out and lend my full name, if the journalist is still interested.
Thanks so much for all the responses. So wonderful that so many of our community members are happy to speak about their experiences using Freetrade!
Iāve passed along a couple of contact details to the journalist and I think sheās set on this occasion, but I may very well come back in future.
Journalists are always far more interested in speaking with real investors about the decisions theyāre making, theyāre approach to investing and their objectives (rather than listening to me blather on about how great Freetrade is!).
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early thirties I feel old now. Thank you 
