Are women better traders than men?
May 18th - The article concentrates on, with reference to studies, what qualities female traders can offer and bring to the industry.
Using Forex Signals Correctly
April 19th - The main questions and considerations when deciding on a signals provider Anyone new to trading forex will almost certainly have come across different offers for ‘forex signals’. Even those who have been trading for some time and have never used...
Canadian Gold Maple Leaf Coins as a Gold Bullion Investment
September 29th - Purity of gold content makes Maple Leaf favoured investment coin
Passive Income Ideas: 3 Ways You Can Really Earn It Through Smart Investing
June 21st - Forget the scammy ‘systems’ and promises of becoming an overnight millionaire with little starting capital. But you can earn attractive passive income. First thing first, there is no such thing as a free lunch. If anyone tells you that you...
Advantages and Disadvantages of a Reverse Mortgage
May 4th - Some of the main reasons you might take a reverse mortgage loan and the drawbacks to consider
Understanding Reverse Mortgages
May 3rd - Reverse Mortgages, How They Work and Getting the Best Deal A reverse mortgage or HECM (Home Equity Conversion Mortgage) is a loan product designed to give homeowners over the age of 62 the option to benefit from equity accumulated in...
Investing in Wine – Interview Transcript with The Wine Investment Fund (TWIF)
June 12th - An ‘Inside the Industry’ Opinion on Wine Investment 1. The fund’s website indicates that the great bulk of its investment of client funds is in Bordeaux wines. According to my reading, top Bordeaux vintages performed poorly in 2012, at least...
Forestry Investments – Options Available to the Private Investor
June 12th - Investing in forestry warrants serious consideration. Historically attractive long-run returns relative to other investment classes, low volatility and high correlation with inflation, make a forestry investment a good inflationary hedge. Investing in forestry can help to bring balance and stability...
Investing In Wine – Exercise Caution Ahead
June 12th - Among the myriad alternative investment products which have come to prominence since the onset of the global financial crisis made dangerous terrain of the traditional stocks and bonds markets, with everything from rare earth minerals to carbon credits getting a...
PIBS – You Get What You Pay For, Risk And All
October 2nd - High-yield fixed-income oddball looking increasingly anachronistic Intro Sooner or later, the investor trawling the markets for a fixed-income security which also offers a yield beyond the virtually undetectable will be drawn to PIBS – Permanent Interest Bearing Shares. They’ve been...
Buying Shares in Companies Listed Abroad – A Layman’s Look At Depositary Receipts
September 25th - ADRs and GDRs and other things just like ‘em Intro – Investing in Companies Listed Abroad UK-resident equities investors are spoiled for choice in their home market, with the London Stock Exchange playing host to over 2,600 publicly-traded companies. The...
Forex Chart Analysis: An Introduction
September 3rd - Get to grips with the basics of using charts for technical analysis Chart analysis is the projection of future price movements via the analysis of historical price movements, where historical price movements can be presented in various ways. Bar chart...
Ethical Investment – Big Business But What Does It Mean Exactly?
August 7th - When push meets shove, that’s for individual investors to decide An Ethical by any other name Ethical investment is big business. How big, we’ll take a look at shortly. But for sure it’s an important consideration for publicly listed companies...
The Bonds Markets – An Introduction
June 13th - Gilts, Investment Grade or Junk – A Look At Investment In Tradable Debt Instruments Whether the aim is stable income in retirement, a specific future cash need, portfolio diversification or old-fashioned risk aversion, or a combination of such factors, an...
Spread Betting – A Beginner’s Guide
May 28th - What Is Spread Betting and How Does it Work? Introduction to Financial Spread Betting Financial spread betting is a form of investing by means of betting on the movement of global financial markets. Or, in other words, it is trading...
REIT Evaluation – More Than One Way To Skin The Cat
May 3rd - In the first of this two-part series Investing in REITs: A Guide to Going About It, we looked at the nature of REITs – real estate investment trusts – and the practicalities of taking a stake in this growth investment product....
Investing In REITs – A Guide To Going About It
April 24th - Real Estate Investment Trusts An Interesting Option But Homework Needed What’s A REIT and How Do I Buy In? For the prospective investor in publicly-traded real estate investment trusts – REITs – there is the need first to understand the...
Fine Wine Investment – A View From The Inside
February 18th - Fine Wine Investment Revisited Last year, iNVEZZ took a look at fine wine as an investment product (Investing In Wine – Exercise Caution Ahead) which concluded that, unless you have a high level of expertise – that you know your...
Real Estate Investment Trusts and Student Housing – A Natural Fit?
February 18th - Illiquidity In Retail Student Accommodation Investment Would Be Addressed By a Specialist REIT Student Lets – Sound But Illiquid Investment Some months back, we at invezz.com wrote a piece (it’s here) on student accommodation investment, then – and still – being...
Initial Public Offerings – Good or Bad Investment Option?
January 14th - Caveat Emptor Tag Should Hang on Every IPO Share “The IPO of The Century” On Thursday, 2 February 2012, Facebook announced that it was going to undertake what would amount to the biggest-ever stock market listing for a technology company....
Real Estate Funds (REITs) –The Alternative To Direct Investment In Property
January 14th - Exchange-traded Landlords Now A Mature Investment Option But Knowledge Needed Why A REIT In this piece, we take an in-depth look at investment in REITs – real estate investment trusts – as an alternative to a direct investment in a...
New York Property – Why not Diversify Your Portfolio with a Bite of the Big Apple?
January 7th - But Bottom of Manhattan Housing Rung Increasingly Heading North of $1 million America’s Most Expensive – Postcode, That Is If, back in the 1960s say, when every well-to-do American home would have one, you wrote off for your copy of...
Investing in Indian Real Estate An Intriguing Prospect – If You Qualify
December 11th - Introduction India – home to over 1.2 billion people according to its 2011 census, some 17 percent of the world’s population though occupying only 2.4 percent of the land mass. Despite huge growth in urbanisation in the past three decades,...
A Quarter of a Million Play in London’s Buy-to-Let Market
December 11th - A Look At Realistic Returns On £250,000 Invested In London Residential Property Introduction – A Middle Class BTL Investment In this piece, we delve into the London housing market on the footing that we’re a buy-to-let investor with a quarter...
Investing In Residential Property – The Whys And Wherefores
November 30th - A Primer For Investment In Homes For Reward Introduction – Why Would You Do It? In this piece, we take a look at investment in residential real estate from the perspective of the private investor – someone looking to become...