Investing

An introduction to gilts – the fancy name for UK government bonds that are sold by The Treasury to balance the nation’s books.

It’s vital to take tracking error into account when choosing your index tracker funds. Funds with high tracking error can add substantially to your costs.

The UK’s only proclaimed small cap tracker looks more like an expensive mid cap tracker in my book.

A model passive portfolio that can help investors to formulate their own index investing strategies.

My asset class outlook for 2011 sees equities doing fairly well, government bonds continuing to come off the boil, and a recovery in commercial property.

Income investment trusts are now trading at a premium, meaning new buyers are paying a hefty price for access to blue chip dividends.

Don’t feel guilty if you’re confused about gilts – there’s very little information about them compared to equities. So here’s some tips on choosing how to buy.

Search for index funds quickly and avoid misleading investment information using these fund-finding tips.

Everyone loves emerging markets these days, which is a good reason to use a cheap fund to access them, and to invest a little warily and often.

How to build a diversified passive investors portfolio that avoids costly trading fees.

Invest overseas? Then withholding tax could be skimming money off your dividends. Take action now to stop it.

What Peter Lynch looks for in a share is very different from what the media or the typical stock market punter seeks out.

If you want to borrow to invest, you probably shouldn’t – by definition it’s likely to be a bad time to do so.

Use TER not the misleading AMC when comparing fund costs. It’ll make a big difference to your eventual returns.

Think the stock market will stay above zero? Then modify the homemade GEB we discussed previously to get more return at hopefully not much more risk.