Like many investors, Ian Martin started out by buying stock in his favorite companies, such as Nike, Starbucks and Tesla. Unlike most, he was 14 at the time.
His parents set up a custodial brokerage account to teach him about investing, which he seeded with US$800 in Christmas and birthday money. They had not paid much attention to budgeting and investing their own money until their 30s and wanted Ian to learn from their mistakes.
