Weekly Roundup, 31st March 2015
Weekly Roundup for the UK Private Investor: QE, emerging markets, robots, unpicking Picketty, election jitters and don’t blow your pension.
Monthly Archive: March 2015
Economics Manifesto – New Savings Culture
We look at the Economics Manifesto from Policy Exchange. Will its proposals lead to a new savings culture in Britain, or is there an elephant in the room?
Investment Trust Portfolio – John Baron
We take the first step towards an Investment Trust portfolio by looking at the five IT portfolios run by John Baron of the Investors Chronicle.
SmallCap Growth Portfolio 3 – IC Bargain Shares
SmallCap Growth Portfolio – we look at the progress to date and review the Investors Chronicle Bargain shares 2015 for candidates.
Stockomendation – all of the tips at once
We take a look at Stockomendation, an aggregator which has all of the stock tips you could ever need. But are they any good?
Asset allocation vs. Costs vs. Taxes
We look at a new study of asset allocation strategies, and wonder whether things are more complicated than people think.
Budget 2015
We take a look at Osborne’s last Budget of this Parliament – pension lifetime allowance, ISAs, VCTs, incomes & savings tax, Help to Buy ISA and oil tax cuts.
Weekly Roundup, 18th March 2015
Weekly Roundup for the UK Private Investor: savings inequality, tax-free pensions, the housing crisis, traded annuities, art, care costs and wages.
Piggyback Portfolio 8 – Nifty Thrifty
Piggyback Portfolio – part 8 in a series where we screen public portfolios for stock ideas. We look at the Nifty Thrifty portfolio, and performance to date.
Stop Losses
Do Stop Losses really work? We look at the evidence and come up with some rules for using them.
Social Trading and Black Swans
The perils of Social Trading, including survivorship bias and Black Swans – lessons from the FX meltdown after the removal of the Swiss Franc Euro peg.
