Recently I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Holly Cook, Managing Editor of Morningstar. In particular, Holly and I discussed ISA investment and over our next 3 posts we'll look at the points we covered in more detail.
Tips for managing your ISA portfolio (a Morningstar video interview)
Tags: ISA investing tips, ISA growth
The Retail Distribution Review: What investors need to know
The Retail Distribution Review (RDR) is a key part of the Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) consumer protection strategy. In this post we'll look at what investors need to know about The RDR.
Tags: Better protection
The 5 most popular ways of getting investment tips, advice and ideas
There are many ways to get advice and investment tips and in this post I’m going to focus on the most popular. For most people, advice on what to invest in and when to invest tends to come from one of five sources:
Tags: Investment strategy, Investment Guidance, Investment mistakes
How to gauge the value of investment advice, tips and ideas
Many people are looking for help with their investing and advice, tips and ideas can come in many forms. If you type ‘investment advice, tips and ideas’ into Google, you get a staggering 55,000,000 results. This means that investors aren't short of recommendations, but what they do need is clarity on how to gauge what information is good and what isn’t.
Tags: ISA growth, Investment strategy
How to find your wonder horse - by Richard Koch
Last week’s blog, Find Your Horse, seems to have resonated. This week we look at how you can find your own wonder-horse.
The horse, you will recall, is something with inherent power to propel you. It could be a college or organisation, a job, a new business venture, a cause, an idea, or a group of friends fixated on one specific aim.
Tags: Guest blogs
In last week's post I told you more about my background. In this post, I'd like to take you through the rest of my story, including how I have been fortunate to outperform the FTSE 100 by 40.8% since 1997*.
Tags: About ISACO
Find your horse to ride - A guest blog by Richard Koch
This week, we are delighted to welcome Richard Koch as a guest blogger. Richard is a former management consultant, entrepreneur and is the best selling author of several books on how to apply the Pareto principle (80/20 rule) in all walks of life.
Tags: Guest blogs
Many people that Paul and I speak to are curious to know more about my background and how we’ve managed to beat the FTSE 100 over the last 15 years. In this post, I'd like to take you through my story and how my career as a full time investor began.
Tags: About ISACO
In our latest series of posts we've been looking at common mistakes that some fund investors make. I'd like to close this series by looking at our 9 investment lessons for success. By trying to avoid these mistakes and adhering to the lessons, you'll give yourself a much better chance of reaching your financial goals on time.
Tags: Better performance, Investment strategy, Achieving your investment goals
Stock Market Summary Saturday 9th February 2013
Yesterday's market action was neutral.
The Nasdaq Composite gained 0.91% and trading volume was average (Point A). This behaviour indicated accumulation which is institutional buying and should be seen as...
Tags: Stock Market Summary