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Buying an investment trust on a discount can boost your returns. Here’s how!

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These are the investments you should put into your ISAs and SIPPs first in order to maximise your tax breaks.

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The complete guide to investing in a stocks and shares ISA including how it works, the rules, your allowance, tax breaks, costs, eligible funds and inheritance wrinkles.

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New home owners shouldn’t get too smug about leaving their renting days behind. They’re effectively renting money from the bank!

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Some people are stricken by investing paralysis, unable to commit and waiting for an ideal tomorrow that never comes.

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Investment trust discounts and premiums

Investment trusts on a discount enable you to get more assets for your money. Or, if you like throwing money away, you can buy a trust at a premium.

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You can make a lot of money if you already have a lot of money…

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Everyone knows to put money aside in a cash savings just in case something goes wrong… don’t they?

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Nominee accounts: what you need to know

Did you know that the shares you own are unlikely to be held in your own name? If not, then this piece tells you what you need to know.

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Rich friends, poor friends

Having rich friends may make you richer. But as ever, don’t count on that making you any happier.

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Pros and cons of being wealthy

If you’re an oligarch, a millionaire rockstar, a property tycoon or you just struck oil off the coast of Brazil – brother, I feel your pain.

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Building your own passive portfolio? Here’s how to decide whether to use ETFs or index funds at every stage.

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UK historical house prices

An easy way to get depressed is to never buy your own home and then to take a peek at a graph of house price growth. Let’s see what we could have won!

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You know lots of people with houses worth hundreds of thousands of pounds – or even a million-plus – but a lot fewer with six- or seven-figure share portfolios. Why is that?

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Vanguard LifeStrategy funds review

An instant diversified portfolio that requires less maintenance than an Easter Island statue.

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How do accumulation funds work?

Accumulation fund investors generally have no idea how much they’ve earned in dividends. But discovering this hidden flow of cash is easy…

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