I accept it’s normal to feel frustrated, angry, or even downright stupid when you lose money on your investments. But what about guilt? My portfolio’s fall from its peak value in summer 2007 to a low in October 2008 represents a big loss for a 30-something private investor like me: at least a couple of [...]
February 2009
Every week I read a huge number of personal finance and investing articles. I thought you might enjoy a weekly shortcut to the best. First, my quick thoughts on the week’s news So the Bank of England has cut interest rates to 1%. While anyone relying on cash savings should already have diversified their income [...]
In this post I’ll explain the most important types of corporate bonds for private investors.
Update: Voting is now closed. We won and are into the second round. Thanks everyone! I don’t usually write short posts like this, but I’m a fairly competitive sort of person and today Monevator has come up in round 15 of the Free Money Finance blogs’ ‘March Madness’ blog competition. I’m in game 15, which [...]