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Lars calls in from his Covid-19-proof bunker to answer your burning questions about investing in the Covid era…

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Enough of the talk of bond apocalypse. Here’s how to work out the potential gains and losses for yourself, depending on what interest rates do next.

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If you’re going to try to beat the market, you’re better off learning from a wrinkly old guy with an incredible record than a 30-something on CNBC.

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We take a look at the weird world of negative interest rates, the potential consequences, and the dream of ‘being paid to take out a mortgage’.

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Are you a new share trader? Do you want to see a path to making profitable investments? Read on!

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Negative yields, eh? That sounds a bit negative. Or even completely radioactive. So just how bad are these negative yielding bonds? Let’s find out.

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A surprising chart shows us that the stock market is often more savage than the history books suggest.

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Unhedged US Treasuries been better for UK investors in stock market crashes for the last two decades. What’s going on?

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Don’t be bamboozled by the hype – investment trusts aren’t sitting on mattresses stuffed with cash

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The Global Financial Crisis was awful. Which means it must have some amazing lessons to teach us. Perhaps about diversification!

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The rules of diversification sometimes seem too simple to believe. Well, believe them now because some your favourite out-of-favour asset classes are saving the day now.

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Our passive portfolio encounters its first bear market. And it hurts.

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The coronavirus is causing havoc, but in the long-term it’ll probably be another blip…

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The story of the crisis so far. As told by the Monevator community.

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Is now the right time to talk about pound cost averaging? I think so…

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Let’s consider the highly unlikely. Some would say paranoid. How bad can things really get and what might happen to our investments in a worst case scenario?

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