Financial Planning
Top tips to make you a smarter investor
- You don’t need to be a Warren Buffett or a Prince Alwaleed to manage your investments better. And the hotter months are a good time to undergo a personal financial review, and to consider whether you are really doing the best that you can.
- Thursday, September 27 - 2007 at 16:22 |
How will the gold price react to the global credit crunch?
- Gold prices have drifted higher over the past few weeks and this week hit a 27-year high after the Fed cut interest rates. But gold bugs are nervous that in a big stock market downturn gold would be sold down alongside other assets by hedge funds and the like in need of cash to meet margin payments.
- Thursday, September 20 - 2007 at 16:44 |
Sell! Global financial problems will get worse
- The global credit crunch that ruined the holidays of many financial professionals this August is going to get worse, and not better. Don’t believe the self-interested parties who tell you to sit tight. Panic is a natural human response to a problem, and in this instance selling is the right thing to do.
- Thursday, September 13 - 2007 at 09:55 |
Investment fundamentals the Templeton Way
- The last article in this series highlighted the first investment rule of this great investor, ‘buy a bargain’. Here we look at some of the other top tips that Sir John Templeton gave almost 20 years in a book called ‘Global Investing, The Templeton Way’ and how relevant they are to modern investors.
- Thursday, August 30 - 2007 at 16:52 |
Buying a stock market bargain
- There is nothing like the summer months for brushing up investment techniques and getting back to basics.
- Middle East: Thursday, August 16 - 2007 at 09:56 |
Warren Buffett watching for investment tips
- Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, doesn't give much away in his famous annual letter to shareholders. He admits to buying shares in a couple of new companies, but says he will not name them because then he would have to kill us! Of course, everybody wants to know what the world’s most famous investor is up to.
- Tuesday, July 24 - 2007 at 13:15 |
How to profit from having a credit card
- Most people have credit cards for convenience and to avoid changing money overseas. They also regard annual fees as a necessary expense. Yet with a little discipline and shopping around you can actually make a profit from holding a credit card, and show an annual return on this facility.
- Sunday, July 15 - 2007 at 10:08 |
Bear Stearns hedge fund trouble should be a warning to investors!
- Last week it emerged that Bear Stearns is planning to take up $3.2 billion in loans to prevent creditors seizing control of a loss-making hedge fund in the biggest bail-out since the $4.6 billion collapse of Long-Term Capital Management in 1998 during the Asian Financial Crisis.
- US: Sunday, June 24 - 2007 at 07:46 |
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