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To invest in an investment company you need an investment trust investment account. In this guide, we will explain what an investment trust is, how they work, how you can pick the best ones and highlight where you can buy them. What is an investment trust? They are also known as investment companies, which is, …
To invest in an open-ended investment company you need an OEIC investment platform. In this guide we will explain what open-ended investment companies are, how they work, how you can pick the best ones and highlight where you can buy them. What is an open-ended investment fund? An open-ended fund is an investment product that …
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To invest in an index fund you need an index fund platform account. In this guide, we will explain what an index fund is, how they work, how you can pick the best ones and highlight where you can buy them. What are index funds? The rise of passively managed investment funds has been the …
Six Reasons Why Passive Beats Active Investing The spectacular demise of Britain’s most famous active fund manager, Neil Woodford, has reopened the debate as to whether you’re better off using active funds or passive funds. Of course, it’s a question that can only be answered with the benefit of hindsight. Only when you come to …
Another month, another Seedrs crowdfund for a free stock broking app. Freetrade and Dabbl have been around a while, whilst BUX, fresh from purchasing Ayondo, their regulatory home, are launching their STOCKS app soon. Revolut keep threatening to bring free stock trading to their large installed user base. Trading 212 have been running their commission-free …
In light of recent events in the fund investing world, it appears that picking funds, is as hard as picking stocks. So can Interactive Investor’s Super 60 pick winners? Investment platforms tend to feature specific funds, so here we take a look at Interactive Investor’s Super 60 Investment platform, Interactive Investor launched its Super 60 …
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Cycle positioning is one of the keys to investment success. You identify critical points in a market cycle and adjust your portfolio accordingly. If you get this right, chances of making significant profits are much greater. Great investors understood this, so should you. Market Cycles in a Nutshell Why do market move in cycles? “People,” …
Here’s our quick summary guide on how to research funds for your long term investments… Sitting alongside stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) is a bewildering number of investment funds. So large in numbers – 8,000+ approved and recognised CIS according to the FCA website – that any new DIY investor would collapse in agony about …
If you want to own investments that outperform the market then you need to pay attention to relative strength index analysis. Relative strength indexing is about finding financial instruments that are generally outperforming – or underperforming – specific benchmarks, or a group of similar instruments. What is interesting about relative strength is that it persists. …
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Every February the venerable Warren Buffett publishes his widely-read shareholder letter. Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft and a close friend of Warren, ranked these letters as “among the best of business literature.” Not only can you see what The Oracle of Omaha is buying, you can read his valuable thoughts on markets. This year, Buffett’s letter …
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