Investing all your assets is not advisable mate, you need to have separate capital for this method of earning because investing money is very risky specially here in crypto currency the worst thing may possible to happen anytime. Those coins you wanting to invest is less known coin which is more risky to invest but the possibility to gain good profit is there. Taking big risk may lead to get huge profit.
Since he is even lacking the funds, he really should not be thinking of investing and should probably be thinking of how to work and make some money. If he is trying to consider taking loan to invest, he should better think again because that would be the worst mistake of his life.
The best is always to Invest what one has and what one can afford to let go in case anything happens and in that case I would even want to consider bitcoin mostly if I have the money to spare rather than altcoins. Although, one of his pick, EOS has been having good stuff going for them, but rather wait, work and earn some cash and take part of it to invest, no matter how small.