Investing advice from a teenager

“I need a quote to go at the end of my email,” one of our team said out loud the other day.

We all work predominantly from home, so the audience was that person’s teenage son, Lachie, and his girlfriend.

She suggested something from Stephen Hawking.

Lachie suggested his school motto, “Many pathways. No limits.”

In the end, we went with Hawking’s “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change” – he’s obviously one of the greatest minds of our age, and 2020 has been nothing if not a year of change.

But Lachie’s idea got me thinking.

His school motto is a wonderful exhortation for kids who are all different and all looking to make their different ways in the world. 

But it’s also a good reminder for…