The pros and cons of the main asset classes neatly arrayed for your investing convenience.
Investing
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Compound interest increase your fortune spectacularly if you give it enough time. So start. Start saving and investing right now.
The mathematics of compounding means short ETFs are strictly for day traders, and anyone else who doesn’t particularly like profitable investing.
In stark contradiction to recommended practice, I’m looking at my portfolio numbers more as the market gets worse to see if I can handle a real crash.
So you’re sure you are one of the few who will benefit from transferring a final salary pension? Fine, but don’t expect it to be easy!
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I spend so little time on my investments that it feels wrong. How can I expect to succeed without any effort? You get back what you put in, right? Wrong. Investing is one of the most counter-intuitive of activities going, because we can only meaningfully judge the results over several decades, not the hours or [...]
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Why take one share into your portfolio, when you can mess about with two? Or three? Or ten? Well, there are a few flimsy reasons.