The 7 most common mistakes investors make: Mistakes number 4 and 5

Posted by Stephen Sutherland on Wed, Sep 03, 2014 @ 01:30 PM

In this series of posts we're looking in detail at 7 of the most common mistakes that investors make. In this post, we'll be looking at mistake number 4, 'Concentrating too much on fundamentals' and mistake number 5, 'Playing ‘buy and hold'.

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Tags: Investment strategy, Investment mistakes, Investment charges

The 7 most common mistakes investors make: Mistakes number 2 and 3

Posted by Stephen Sutherland on Wed, Aug 27, 2014 @ 01:30 PM

In this series of posts we're looking in detail at 7 of the most common mistakes that investors make. In this post, we'll be looking at mistake number 2, 'Choosing funds that own underperforming stocks' and mistake number 3, 'Buying at marketing tops'.

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Tags: Investment strategy, Investment mistakes, Investment charges

The 7 most common mistakes investors make: Mistake number 1

Posted by Stephen Sutherland on Wed, Jun 04, 2014 @ 01:30 PM

In this new series of posts we're going to look at 7 of the most common mistakes that investors make. In this post, we'll start by looking at maistake number 1, 'Making 'low fees' the highest priority'.

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Tags: Investment strategy, Investment mistakes, Investment charges

Download our latest free report: How to cut the cost of investing

Posted by Stephen Sutherland on Sat, May 25, 2013 @ 01:30 PM

As you probably know, here at ISACO we regularly write free reports and guides. As a reader of our blog, we'd like to give you the opportunity to be one of the first to download our latest free report How to cut the cost of investing.

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Tags: Investment funds, Investment charges

How to reduce the cost of investing (part 2)

Posted by Stephen Sutherland on Wed, May 01, 2013 @ 01:30 PM

In our last post we looked at charges and their implications for your investment account. In particular, we divided the cost of investing into three categories and discussed the first one, namely fund charges. 

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Tags: Investment funds, Investment strategy, Investment charges

How to reduce the cost of investing

Posted by Stephen Sutherland on Sat, Apr 27, 2013 @ 01:30 PM

Charges and fees can seriously eat into your returns. When you fail to achieve adequate growth you run the risk of your wealth decreasing and if this happens during your retirement it can have disastrous consequences. To help increase the probability that this doesn’t happen to you, I’m now going to attempt to simplify charges and the cost of investing.

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Tags: Investment funds, Investment strategy, Investment charges