Image by Ketut Subiysanko on pexels.com It is common for investment funds to be managed with reference to a published index, in part to allow investors to have some indication as to how it might perform in the future. Over the long term, it is reasonable...
Image by Tumisu on Pixabay.com Yet again, it appears that an issuer of mini bonds has failed, leaving its investors with little or no prospect of recovering their investment. In this instance it is a firm, Wellesley, whose TV advertisements I had actually seen myself. I...
Image from pixeltweaks on pixabay With depressing regularity, investors in assets which they were told were secure turn out to be anything but that. I draw the distinction here between those whose falls are simply a function of broad market movements which affect all publicly quoted...
Those who were duped by fraudsters in financial scandals were persuaded to buy something which, had they stopped to think more closely, might have seemed too good to be true. Good advisers ensure that their clients understand what they are buying and take the trouble...
The recent collapse of a firm supposedly offering low risk investments which turned out to be the opposite affords the opportunity to consider some of the warning signs when faced with any apparently attractive investment proposition, particularly as these regularly apply to other schemes which...
New EU regulations that came into force in 2018 will shortly give investors unprecedented information about the actual charges that they paid on their portfolio over the previous year....
European regulator focuses attention on the costs of investing...