Financial Planning
Picking your financial advisor
- Gulf expatriates and nationals enjoy a tax-free investment environment with relatively high disposable incomes. This should be a haven for savers, and it can be so long as you choose the right financial advisor, and don't fall into the hands of the sharks.
- Monday, November 14 - 2005 at 09:16 |
US federal funds rate at 4%, what does this mean for investors?
- This year has not been a good one for many investors. US equities have moved sideways at best, UK property is now in its 16th month of declining prices, and US inflation hit 4.7% in September. Meanwhile, rising US interest rates have started to impact on bond prices, with no end of 25 basis point rises in sight.
- Wednesday, November 02 - 2005 at 12:16 |
Bond prices fall: time to sell US Treasuries?
- Many big investors keep a large portion of their wealth invested in US Treasury bonds. Over the past few weeks this previous safe haven for investment has started to slide on the back of rising interest rates. So is this the end of the long bond bull market?
- Saturday, October 29 - 2005 at 09:48 |
Is bird flu the next financial hurricane?
- Bird flu has reached the UK, and is spreading around the world. After the recent experience of SARS in the Asian region - which cost billions in terms of lost business and hit local equity and real estate markets, but killed less people in total than flu does in an average day - nobody should be complacent.
- Saturday, October 22 - 2005 at 11:28 |
4.7% US inflation: buy gold, sell US treasury bonds!
- Last week the US posted its highest monthly figure for energy price inflation in almost 50 years. Annual US headline inflation is now 4.7%, the highest for 14 years, so US treasury bond holders are losing money in real terms. Only commodities are ahead.
- Saturday, October 15 - 2005 at 10:04 |
Pulling on a piece of string!
- Somebody once wrote that making an investment is like pulling a brick on a piece of string. Forces keep pulling and pulling on the brick until suddenly it flies and hits you in the face!
- Tuesday, October 11 - 2005 at 09:26 |
Buy in haste, repent at leisure
- Ramadan is an excellent time for taking stock of an investment portfolio, and considering how the world has changed over the past year. Certainly things have moved on in the Middle East and globally as far as investments are concerned.
- Tuesday, October 04 - 2005 at 10:25 |
Investment in a period of higher inflation
- That the world has now entered a period of higher inflation after a long phase of very low inflation is clear from recent official figures. But so far capital markets have failed to adjust to this new reality aside from marking up energy and mining stocks.
- Saturday, October 01 - 2005 at 09:38 |
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