The 2023 blogpost 6 common investing myths – and the truths (which I was pushed by email this morning) seems to me to have a really bad omission: that you shouldn’t invest (by which I include putting money in any asset class with a higher risk than cash) unless your time horizon for wanting your capital back is five years or more!
I must say, for me personally, all the current marketing ‘push’ (not just Monzo, it seems to be everywhere) to ‘get more people investing’ - while it’s not quite at the “stock tips from the shoeshine boy” stage, it’s certainly in that direction…