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Category Archives: Investments
How to cut ISA charges
Informed Choice chartered financial planner Martin Bamford was quoted in the Sunday Times this weekend, in an article about cutting …
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Market numbers: Friday 3rd February 2012
The FTSE 100 index of leading UK company shares finished the week at 5,901.07, up 105.00 points or +1.81% on …
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Time to get out of gilts?
A report in Investment Week today suggests that some fund managers are ‘shorting’ gilts in expectation of an extreme correction. …
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Remember the dot-com bubble
How can a company with estimated profits of $335m to $1bn possibly attract a market valuation of $100bn? That is …
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Market numbers: Friday 27th January 2012
The FTSE 100 index of leading UK company shares finished the week at 5,733.45, down 61.75 points or -1.07% on …
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Active management & transaction costs
It has become increasingly popular to ‘bash’ active fund management in recent years, with advocates of ‘passive’ investing being particularly …
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UK economy shrinks in Q4 2011
The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show that gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 0.2% in the …
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Protecting irrational investors
The new Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which is replacing the Financial Services Authority (FSA), plans to use its powers to …
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Reforming executive pay
The subject of excessive executive pay is a hot political topic currently, with politicians from each party striving to score …
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Book review: The Search for Income by Maike Currie
Since the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008, income investors in the UK have been under particular pressure …
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