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a poor investment strategy

Whilst I was at university I had a mobile phone contract with Orange. For those that don’t know, Orange have in my opinion, the best mobile phone adverts ever (there are no phones in them). In addition, I was also extremely happy with Orange as a mobile phone provider. When the opportunity arose for me [...]

bonds and gilts

Bonds and gilts (some times known as fixed interest securities) are ways to lend money. There are essentially two entities that you can lend money to - governments and companies. In the UK loans to governments are called gilts and loans to companies are called bonds. In return for lending your money, the government or [...]

investing for the nervous

You know those tv adverts for investments that always point out that the value of your investments may do down as well as up? They’re completely right. In fact, they understate the case. I reckon that every single serious investment (as opposed to say a savings account) held in a sensible manner will go down in value.

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