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 [...]
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(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 [...]
Looks like the age of 0% interest rates has come early for customers of TD Waterhouse in the UK, which just announced the rates pictured for cash held in its various share dealing accounts. Dealing accounts typically offer terrible interest rates on uninvested cash, but 0% is taking the biscuit (or rather all of the [...]
With the price of bank shares being driven by fear, should we avoid them completely? Or if we do want to get specific exposure to banks, which banks look the best? As a private investor, I can only tell you what I’m doing (and remind you an index tracking fund should underpin your portfolio, not [...]