September 2011

Back into bank preference shares?

September 29, 2011
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Bank preference shares have fallen with bank shares on summer’s worries – to the extent that they’re tempting me back for a second look again.

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Conjure up big savings without sacrificing your quality of life

September 27, 2011
Slow and steady

Sacrificing consumption now in order to save for the future is meant to be hard. But you can relieve much of the pain by devising a budget in line with how you want to live your life rather than how you’re told to live your life.

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Weekend reading: Petition to end the ban on AIM shares in ISAs

September 24, 2011
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Some good reads from around the Web. I don’t know how many of you buy shares listed on the Alternative Investment Market, but I am sure that if you do you’ll find the ban on holding AIM shares in an ISA as annoying as I do. The theory is that AIM shares are too risky [...]

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Five things to remember after the FTSE’s latest fall

September 23, 2011
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Markets are plunging again, but there’s nothing you can do about it. Concentrate on what you can control when you invest.

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Financial goals: Sticking to the plan when the funk comes to visit

September 20, 2011
Slow and steady

What happens when you despair that your financial goals look so far away? It’s time to reaffirm where you’re going, and why.

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Weekend reading: Monevator nominated for Plutus award, and now on Flipboard!

September 17, 2011
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Some nice news for Monevator, and plenty more money and investing stories from around the web.

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Accumulation units – the income tax loophole that never was

September 15, 2011
Slow and steady

Many investors think that they don’t have to pay tax on their dividends squirrelled away in accumulation units. It’s a myth. Discover the truth within.

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How to invest in an IPO

September 13, 2011
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Want to invest in that bright young thing that’s about to come to the stock market? You probably shouldn’t, but here’s how you go about it.

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Ten lessons learned from accidentally starting a business

September 8, 2011
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A special guest star writer, The Money Blogger, tells us what she learned from starting a business on eBay and Amazon without really meaning to.

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Income units versus accumulation units – what difference does it make?

September 6, 2011
Slow and steady

A quick confusion-buster on the difference between income units and accumulation units and which you should use.

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Weekend reading: Lose the ‘lost decade’

September 3, 2011
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A New York Times blogger puts the boot in the ‘lost decade’ myth, plus plenty of other good money reads from at home and abroad.

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How did Warren Buffett get rich?

September 1, 2011
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Buffett is a great stock picker and an investing genius. But few people know that Buffett’s original investing partnerships are the real secret to his wealth.

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