You Can’t Bank On These Advisers

Q. Having inherited a sizeable sum of money, I was considering investing some of it into the stockmarket. My Bank offered a free meeting with one of their advisers, who showed me various graphs showing that this was a good idea over, say, 5 years or more, and recommended their Bond.    I was quite comfortable with this, but [...]

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Investing – When Boring Is Good! – Hot Topics Q & A

Q. Over the years I have used various financial advisers. A lot of the time they call me with a new idea on investing that involves putting money into an ’exciting new product’. I have had my fingers burned on this sort of thing before, but still find the ideas interesting as they sound so good when an adviser [...]

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Drip, drip, drip. Will It Never End?! – Graeme Urwin

It seems to go on and on doesnt it? The M.P.’s expenses thing I mean. Detail after detail comes out, and then some more, and then some more after that. I then noticed that the Financial Services Authority (FSA) who oversee financial planners like ourselves, have awarded themselves £33m in pay rises and bonuses. They [...]

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