Investing

Bad news for the nervous. Assets have become more closely correlated, making diversification harder.

Here are some good places to visit if you want to research individual corporate bonds. Don’t expect the opposite sex to be impressed.

The RBS Royal Bond offers an attractive yield of 5.3%, and it matures in just six years. Is it worth buying?

If efficient market theories are flawed, we might well ask whether behavioural finance offers a practical alternative for private investors.

Even if you’re in debt, you should start learning more about putting investment ideas into practice sooner rather than later.

Banking on the stock market to deliver any precise return is risky, even over 20 years.

Borrowing to invest is unlikely to be very profitable once you take into account tax on your returns.

The cost of servicing a loan will eat up most of the returns you’re likely to make from borrowing to invest.

Borrowing to invest in stocks looks like a good idea but is a really bad one. This special week-long series will try to explain why.

The data shows corporate bonds have beaten equities over the past decade. It won’t last.

It’s extremely easy to fool yourself when it comes to share trading. My Lloyds trade could hardly have looked better at first blush, yet it’s barely broken even.

I’ve put money into several small cap investment trusts. The aim is to make out-sized gains when the bull market really kicks in.

I have written about several specific company’s shares here on Monevator over the past six months. How have they done?

Buying Lloyds shares is basically a bet that sweating its assets will out the earnings, eventually.

The 18th Issue GEB from NS&I offers limited returns for the risks of seeing no gains. I wouldn’t go near it.