Investing in Exchange Traded Funds - ETFs

Financial Engineering is a complex process used by large companies to ensure that they can fulfill their financial obligations at certain times in the future. It is however just as relevant for individuals and small companies. We cannot accurately...

How to invest in bonds: Corporate bonds; Government Bonds (or "Gilts" in the U.K. "Treasuries" in the US) and what are bonds? While stock markets have suffered during recent economic turmoil, bond markets have been more secure. They have not been im...

What is a "balanced" portfolio? Why should mixing different asset classes make your investment portfolio much less risky? Here is an explanation (and some of the maths) behind this useful risk reduction method. Most portfolios are highly...

Where to get good stock tips and independent financial advice. The internet is a source of huge amount of investment information and advice, some of it good and some very bad, but where can you get good reliable information and good finance and inve...

Zero Dividend Preference Shares are a little known sub-class of investment trust share (the safest variety of "Split-Capital" investment trust) which provide almost guaranteed capital gain with a defined end-date. Usually very safe, even in these tur...

What are Investment Trusts and why should you invest in them? This article is all about the advantages (and disadvantages) of these relatively unpopular equity investments. They are generally only purchased by experienced investors because they are...

Pensions are extremely important, but very boring and tend to be neglected until it is too late. Personal Pensions, SIPPs (Self Invested Personal Pensions) and Stakeholder Pensions are not the only way to financially prepare for life after work, but...

Many advisors recommend having 5% to 10% of gold, silver and other precious metals in your investment portfolio. This can be in the form of mining shares, ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds), mutual funds or investment trusts, although at least some of it s...

Technical analysis is the art/science of using charts to predict the direction of financial markets (i.e. using the past to predict the future). Various different types of chart may be created and patterns within those charts, intersections of lines...

What is fundamental analysis? and how do you use it to improve the risk and return of your investment portfolio. There are many different styles of investment, stock and share trading: Technical Analysis is favoured by short-term traders and involv...