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 [...]
The Investor
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 [...]
(Source: Yahoo) Books on investment often suggest investing overseas as a method of diversifying your portfolio. There are several reasons why investing abroad can be a good idea, including: If one country or region’s market is doing badly, another could be doing well. Mixing up the returns from several regions helps to smooth the return [...]