I received a lot of great feedback on my research piece last week 'Finding Value: The cheapest stock markets to invest in now'. I also received the following question via this...
It's the start of the month so I once again updated the 80-20 Investor Best of the Best fund selection using our unique algorithm. In this article I will: show...
So the FTSE 100 finally breached the almost mystical 7,000 point mark last week before returning below 7,000 this week. In fact, at its highest closing point it reached 7037.67 on 23rd March...
I'm fundamentally opposed to buying and holding funds for the long term as you can make more money by regularly reviewing them. However, I understand that there are times when...
Research has shown that the sectors and asset classes you invest in are more important than the underlying stocks or shares which you buy. For example if the US stock market...
In recent days the FTSE 100 has been hovering around its all-time high of 6,930 which it attained on 31st December 1999. The chart below shows what happened next when the dot com bubble burst (click on all the images in this article to expand them). Yet it's not just the...
Playing the Chinese New Year is a popular story with the money sections of the national newspapers. The stories normally centre around the idea that the Chinese New Year is upon us, so should you be buying Chinese equities? This year the Chinese New Year celebrations start on 19th February 2015....
I was asked by the excellent Mark Bridge from The Times newspaper for my views on the best funds for monthly income. They formed part of his wider article 'The best financial products for income', which also looks at savings and current accounts. It is well worth a read. As an 80-20 Investor subscriber...
More than 6 years on from the financial crisis a number of central banks around the world attempted to steady the ship by printing money, or quantitative easing (QE) to...
July 2014 marked the turning point when the long awaited rally in the dollar finally arrived. The greenback then rallied around 10% against a basket of global currencies as shown below as shown in the chart below. That may sound a lot but if we put it into a...
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