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General investment resources | Unit trusts | Alternative investments | Portfolio investment/funds
General Investment Resources
- Make use of our investment returns calculator to find out what rates are necessary to achieve a desired future value amount.
- More pearls from the world's most successful investor
- Diversify, diversify, diversify say many diverse analysts
- Shares are still the way to grow your pension kitty
- Let your age guide you in investment strategy
- Take some tips from a man who knows
how to invest
- Different ways to make your money work for you
- Spice up your income through smart investment
- Your guide to navigating the hellish stock market
- Old beliefs tumble after the market turmoil
- Seize the uncertainty of the day to rethink investment tactics
- Add up the taxes before you decide on an investment
- A wise investor covers all options to reduce risk
- The 21st century promises a whole new way of investing
- Why yesterday's investment strategy no longer applies
- Invest wisely if you intend to emigrate and need income
- Write a second will if you invest offshore
- You gotta look sharp when investing
- Figure out what all those numbers mean
- Disclose all costs - or forget about my money
- Do thorough research before you even think about investing your money in a company
- Marcus moves to safeguard investors
- Unravel the mysteries of the JSE
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Unit Trusts
- See The Ultimate Unit Trust Guide for complete listings, graphs, fund reviews and more.
- Unit trust purchasing guide
- Dial in savings by going direct
- Get your investment managed for you
- Diversify in one step with new type of unit trust fund
- Put your unit trust through the efficiency test
- Knowing how to choose your unit trust
funds well
- Information vital to help new investor select the correct fund
- Tread carefully in Jekyll and Hyde world of unit trusts
- Make more with the direct approach
- Coming to terms with unit trust volatility
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Alternative investments
- Telling time in times gone by
- A journey into a model world
- Silver shines in your portfolio as well as on your mantelpiece
- Old books can be a licence to print money
- The family treasure -- or trinket?
- If wine prices don't rise, you can always
drink your assets
- Persia's beauties maintain value while treating your senses
- Betting on a bottle of the best bubbly
- Fountain pens could keep you out of the red ink
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Portfolio investment
- Choose a broker who suits your needs
- Income-bearing funds are a safer haven for your cash
- Your guide to the best investment portfolio
- How to avoid unscrupulous financial advisers
- Investors see the value of buying and selling second-hand endowment policies
- Jump aboard the "bondwagon" before it's too late
- Hedge funds reduce risk without jeopardising returns
- Watch those newly listed shares carefully
- Use indices to wisen up your investment
decisions
- How futures close-outs affect the value of your shares
- Investment trusts cost less and pay more than units
- Keep a sharp eye on N shares for the occasional jackpot
- Keep your options open on derivatives
- Use ratios to understand the value of shares
- Money market funds offer low risk investment potential
- The good and the bad of lump sum investments
- The stakes are high in the chase for those big returns
- Costs of growth plan may be worthwhile
- Growth plan makes swopping funds easier
- Has the glitter gone out of gold forever?
- Beat the top fund managers at their own game
- Managed funds for the prudent and the bold
- Fledgling investment concept looks set to take off
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Risk and Return: a chart showing the risk vs return ratio of the 24 general equity funds that have been operating for three years or more.
- Business Times share portfolio Q1 report
- Top funds get the risk and return mix right
- Business Times share portfolio for 1997
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