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Don’t waste money buying expensive gifts

You can give your credit card a break by giving less expensive presents, but there’s a catch – they need to *mean* more…

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If you fancy an alternative, choose Pepsi or listen to grungy rock music, says Lars Kroijer. When it comes to passive investing, market cap indexing remains the logical way to go.

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People get currency risk very wrong, so here’s an article to put us all right. I’ll warn you now it contains some maths – but it’s very simple maths!

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The facts of investing life

Skill might let you play in the deep end of the pool, but knowledge enables you to stay safe in the shallows.

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Investing for beginners: Why do we invest?

Here’s the first part in a new occasional series of articles aimed at absolute beginners to investing. Apples for teacher appreciated.

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If you’re going to try to beat the market, you’re better off learning from a wrinkly old guy with an incredible record than a 30-something on CNBC.

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There are huge immediate financial rewards from getting out of debt, but the mental pay-off may be even greater.

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How to prepare for a recession

Note: This article on recession preparation has been updated in light of the COVID-19 virus pandemic. The coronavirus is upon the West. Stock markets are in free-fall. Almost all measures that can slow the virus down and save lives will hit economic activity. This challenge could persist until we see a vaccine or until as [...]

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Lump sum investing versus drip-feeding

Sitting on a pile of cash? Then you might well be wondering whether it’s better to invest the entire lump sum at once or to drip feed it into the market?

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A selection of rules of thumb that can help you devise your asset allocation strategy.

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Visualizing investors’ emotions

Investors swing from fear to greed. It’s easy to see the cycle in retrospect, but here’s some images to help us understand it while it’s happening.

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Forget peak oil and other abstract catastrophes, you need to grab motivation juice from the personal financial disaster lurking around the corner.

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How did Warren Buffett get rich?

Buffett is a great stock picker and an investing genius. But few people know that Buffett’s original investing partnerships are the real secret to his wealth.

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When it comes to computing and disclosing charges, things are rarely simple in the investment world…

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Update in Spring 2020: As a result of the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, all peer-to-peer lenders are having liquidity problems – in other words investors are not able to immediately get their money out even from so-called ‘Instant Access’ or similarly branded accounts. Ratesetter is no different. Nobody has lost any money with Ratesetter yet as [...]

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How to stick to your saving goals

Saving is a long, hard journey and it’s all too easy to give up or go astray. Here are some simple tactics that will help you fulfill your goals.

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