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Like FSCS compensation? Then you’ll love these funds…

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An investment that has gone up when everything else has gone down is hard to say no to.

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A rapid fire rundown of how to calculate when you’ll achieve financial independence. The same plan could be adapted to any long-term financial goal.

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The investor sentiment cycle

Bored? Anxious? Excited? Melancholy? You might think you’ve got some sort of mental condition, but don’t worry… you’re just a normal investor.

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The Financial Services Compensation Scheme is meant to protect UK investors should the worst happen…

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Cash and bonds are different investments

Bonds are not the same as cash. To confuse the two is a flogging offence in my book.

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Why duration matching your bonds to your time horizon isn’t the no-brainer it’s been made out to be.

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Updated model portfolios to help you nut out your asset allocation strategy

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Leveraged ETFs for the long run*

Let’s be clear: leveraged ETFs are hyper-controversial and not well understood. Nevertheless, in forthcoming articles from the Finumus camp about gearing up a portfolio and investing for different generations I intend to talk openly about them. Hence I want to spend today explaining how they work. That way – with all the blood and gore [...]

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Which commodities ETF?

What’s the best commodities ETF to invest in? We explain our pick

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Why take 45 index trackers into the investing shower when one will do. (Ah, but which one?)

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For a long time we couldn’t compare the rates of interest on cash in investment accounts for one simple reason. Brokers weren’t paying any interest on cash! Rising rates have so dominated the news for the past 18 months that it’s easy to forget that interest rates were near-zero for more than a decade. Even [...]

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How well do commodities hedge against UK inflation?

How effective are commodities as an inflation hedge in the UK?

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This is what drifting sideways looks like

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How to use expected investment returns to build or sanity check your financial plans

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Where to find and how to use global CAPE data

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