Very few private investors give much thought to asset allocation, even though it’s far more important than picking stocks or funds in determining your investment returns. Even worse, those who do set up a nicely diversified portfolio often forget all about their ideal asset mix once they’ve made their initial decisions! This is foolish, and [...]
May 2009
Alas it seems Zopa, the UK peer-to-peer lender, isn’t immune to the downturn – at least not if my recent experience is anything to go by. Readers may recall I was worried that bad debts would rise at Zopa as far back as March 2008. My fear was that consumers starved of finance by the [...]
This series has previously looked at the general principle of investing during a crisis, as well as how you might react to particular headline news events. But crisis investing is also relevant to particular company stocks. Companies are hit by media headlines proclaiming ‘crisis’ all the time, whether it’s a crisis in the boardroom, a [...]
Every week I read a large number of personal finance and investing articles. Here’s my latest weekly shortcut to the best. Before we get on to the links, I’d like to mention that Mike from Oblivious Investor has just announced his book is now on sale. Entitled Oblivious Investing: Building Wealth by Ignoring the Noise [...]