What is diversification?

Category: Investments & Uncategorized

If you’re new to the investment world, or even if you’re not, it’s likely that you’ve heard the term ‘diversification’ used in relation to your investments. However, you’re certainly not alone if you don’t have a clear idea of what the word actually means for your investments. Read on, and learn everything you ever wanted to know about diversification, but were afraid (or didn’t have the time) to ask!

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What is a Self-Invested Personal Pension (SIPP)?

Category: Investments & pensions & Uncategorized

Self-Invested Personal Pensions (SIPPs) are designed to give you greater control over your retirement savings. With a SIPP you can choose from a wide range of high quality investments, manage them for yourself and consolidate your existing pensions in one place. A SIPP is different to other pension saving forms and can give you more control over your pension through a provider with a wide range of funds and the flexibility to manage your own investments.

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When should you keep faith with an underperforming active fund?

Category: Funds & Investments & Uncategorized

Investors who entrust their savings to active fund managers do so in the hope they will achieve market-beating performance. When the fund starts to dip, it is possible that some investors may forget that short-term bouts of underperformance must be endured along the road to potentially superior long-term results. Ultimately, whether to stick with an underperforming fund is the investor’s decision to make… and a very difficult one at that!

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Should you be worried during significant market falls?

Category: Investments & markets & Uncategorized

A recent Standard Life article suggests that in simple terms, you probably shouldn’t be worried about recent market falls. Most of us are investing over the long term, and significant market falls happen periodically. Generally, the wrong thing to do when markets fall by a reasonable margin is to panic and sell out of the market – this just locks in a loss. The right thing to do is remember why you’re invested in the first place and make sure that rationale hasn’t changed.

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Are Company Strategic Reports helpfully forward-looking for investors?

Category: Business & Investments & Uncategorized

Strategic reports provide ‘very little insight’ into future prospects. Many strategic reports contain a mass of annual data and text, which is largely backward looking, finds a PriceWaterhouse (PwC) study. Information disclosed in companies’ annual reports is being buried in a mass of annual data and text, presenting investors with a tough challenge to unearth it, according to the research.

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