Creating a lifetime income - The 5 steps

Posted by Stephen Sutherland on Tue, Aug 07, 2012 @ 01:00 PM

In the third blog of this series we'll look at 5 steps you can follow to create a lifetime income.

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Tags: Investment funds, Better performance, Investment strategy, Achieving your investment goals, Creating an income for life

Creating an income for life - Investing for growth

Posted by Stephen Sutherland on Thu, Aug 02, 2012 @ 01:00 PM

In the second blog of this series we'll look at how you can create an income for life by investing in growth funds.

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Tags: Investment funds, Better performance, Investment strategy, Achieving your investment goals, Creating an income for life

Creating an income for life

Posted by Stephen Sutherland on Tue, Jul 31, 2012 @ 12:57 PM

In this latest series of blogs we'll look at how you can create an income for life and enjoy a more comfortable retirement.

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Tags: Investment funds, Investment strategy, Achieving your investment goals, Creating an income for life

Behavioural finance: The problems caused by overconfidence

Posted by Stephen Sutherland on Thu, Jul 19, 2012 @ 02:24 PM

In our final post on behavioural finance, we'll look at the problems overconfidence can cause for investors.

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Tags: Investment strategy, Behavioural Investing, Achieving your investment goals

Behavioural finance: Herd behaviour and the dangers for investors

Posted by Stephen Sutherland on Sat, Jul 14, 2012 @ 01:00 PM

In the fourth of our posts on behavioural finance, we'll look at herd behaviour and the dangers for investors.

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Tags: Investment strategy, Behavioural Investing, Investment mistakes

How far could your wealth drop in a stock market correction?

Posted by Stephen Sutherland on Sat, Jul 07, 2012 @ 01:30 PM

How far would your wealth have to drop during a stock market correction before you felt uncomfortable? To help you answer this difficult question, in this post we'll look at the returns that we and our clients have achieved over the last three years1, as well as two other salient points:

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Tags: Better performance, Investment strategy, Investment risk, Achieving your investment goals

Behavioural finance - Two anomalies that can cause investing mistakes

Posted by Stephen Sutherland on Thu, Jul 05, 2012 @ 01:15 PM

In the second of our series of posts on behavioural finance, we'll look at two anomalies that can cause investors to behave in a less than rational way. It's worth considering whether you've ever fallen prey to either of these biases. Chances are, at one point or another, we all have.

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Tags: Investment strategy, Behavioural Investing, Investment mistakes

Behavioural finance - An opportunity for smart investors

Posted by Stephen Sutherland on Tue, Jul 03, 2012 @ 01:22 PM

Understanding your financial personality is vitally important. It can help you understand why you make the investment decisions you make, how you are likely to react to the uncertainty inherent in investing and how you can temper the irrational elements of investment decisions while still satisfying your individual preferences.

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Tags: ISA investing tips, Investment strategy, Behavioural Investing

5 key factors that can affect your investment risk tolerance

Posted by Stephen Sutherland on Sat, Jun 30, 2012 @ 01:00 PM

Recently we looked at how investors can begin to assess their tolerance of investment risk. In this post we'll examine five key factors you would need to consider in more detail.

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Tags: ISA growth, Investment strategy, Investment risk, Achieving your investment goals

Can the stock market still deliver strong investment returns?

Posted by Stephen Sutherland on Wed, Jun 27, 2012 @ 01:00 PM

In my last post I looked at the resilience of the stock market and its ability to not only survive turmoil, including recessions, wars and natural disasters, but thrive in the ensuing years.

In this post, we'll look at the strong investment returns delivered by the stock market in the decades immediately following periods of poor investment performance.

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Tags: Better performance, ISA growth, Investment outlook, Investment strategy