A plain-English way to finally invest with confidence
For first-time investors, 35–55.
No jargon, no stock tips — just the research process a fee-only adviser would walk you through, taught as a repeatable method.
Capital Compass, at a glance.
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Maybe this sounds familiar
Cash sitting in savings. You’ve got money in a savings account because investing still feels risky and confusing.
Everyone assumes the jargon. Every finance video assumes you already know what an index fund is.
Too soon for an adviser. Hiring one feels premature for the amount you’re starting with.
What changes by the end
Not a portfolio someone else picked for you — a way of reaching your own decisions, and the reasoning to defend them.
You understand the reasoning — not just what people buy, but why, so the next decision is yours to make.
You have a written plan — your own allocation, sized to your own numbers, on a single page.
You know what to do when it drops — a rule you wrote in advance, instead of a decision made in a bad week.
Six modules, in plain English
How markets actually work
The five-minute mental model that makes the rest of investing make sense.
Risk, in real terms
What risk actually means for your time horizon, and how to size it honestly.
Index funds vs. everything else
Why simplicity usually wins the reasoning test — and the cases where it doesn’t.
ISAs, pensions and tax wrappers decoded
Stocks & Shares ISA, SIPP, workplace pension — in plain English, with a decision tree for which to use first.
Building your allocation
A step-by-step worksheet to set your own portfolio mix, based on your own numbers.
Staying the course
What to do — and not do — the next time the market drops 20%.
Who this is for
You are somewhere between a savings account and a stockbroker, and you would like to understand the middle.
Has money set aside and no confident idea where it should go next.
Wants to understand the reasoning, rather than be handed a list of things to buy.
Is starting with an amount that makes paying a fee-only adviser feel premature.
Would rather learn a repeatable method once than ask for a tip every year.
Real people, first investments.
Three first-time investors, in their own words.
“Investing stopped feeling like a foreign language. I understood the why.”
Marguerite S.
Primary school teacher
“I moved £40,000 out of savings and into a proper plan within a fortnight. It felt like a decision, not a guess.”
Desmond A.
IT support technician
“Wish I’d found this before paying an adviser for the same reasoning, module by module.”
Yolanda P.
HR administrator
One-time payment · lifetime access.
Six modules, three hours, yours for good. Work through it at your own pace and come back to any module whenever you need it — there is no expiry and no subscription.
Capital Compass teaches a research and decision-making method. It’s educational content, not personalised financial advice, and it doesn’t recommend any specific investment. Capital is at risk — the value of investments can fall as well as rise.
Work through it. If it isn’t for you, pay nothing.
Start module one, follow the method, and see whether it makes investing make sense to you. If it doesn’t, email the team inside 14 days for a full refund — no questions beyond “did you work through it?”
The questions we get asked most.
Do I need to know anything about investing already?
No. Module one starts at what a share actually is. Every term is defined the first time it appears, and nothing assumes you have read a finance book.
Will you tell me what to buy?
No, and that is deliberate. This is a research and decision-making method, not a tip sheet. You finish with your own written plan and the reasoning behind it — which is the part that still works next year.
How much do I need to start with?
The method works the same at £500 as at £50,000. Module five sizes an allocation to your own numbers rather than to a worked example.
How long does it take?
About three hours of video across six modules, plus the worksheets. Most people spread it over a fortnight and finish the plan as they go.
Is this financial advice?
No. It is educational content and it does not recommend any specific investment. Capital is at risk — the value of investments can fall as well as rise. For advice on your own circumstances, speak to a regulated adviser.
What if it turns out not to suit me?
Email the team within 14 days and you get a full refund. You keep the First-Time Investor Checklist either way.
Enrolment for the current cohort closes Friday — the next one opens in March.
Ready to invest with a method instead of a hunch?
Six modules, three hours, and a written plan at the end of it that you can explain to anyone who asks. Work through it at your own pace.
Educational content only. Not personalised financial advice — capital is at risk and this course does not recommend individual investments.
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