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Portfolio Investment

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General Investment Resources

  1. Make use of our investment returns calculator to find out what rates are necessary to achieve a desired future value amount.
  2. More pearls from the world's most successful investor
  3. Diversify, diversify, diversify say many diverse analysts
  4. Shares are still the way to grow your pension kitty
  5. Let your age guide you in investment strategy
  6. Take some tips from a man who knows how to invest
  7. Different ways to make your money work for you
  8. Spice up your income through smart investment
  9. Your guide to navigating the hellish stock market
  10. Old beliefs tumble after the market turmoil
  11. Seize the uncertainty of the day to rethink investment tactics
  12. Add up the taxes before you decide on an investment
  13. A wise investor covers all options to reduce risk
  14. The 21st century promises a whole new way of investing
  15. Why yesterday's investment strategy no longer applies
  16. Invest wisely if you intend to emigrate and need income
  17. Write a second will if you invest offshore
  18. You gotta look sharp when investing
  19. Figure out what all those numbers mean
  20. Disclose all costs - or forget about my money
  21. Do thorough research before you even think about investing your money in a company
  22. Marcus moves to safeguard investors
  23. Unravel the mysteries of the JSE
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Unit Trusts

  1. See The Ultimate Unit Trust Guide for complete listings, graphs, fund reviews and more.
  2. Unit trust purchasing guide

    Unit Trust Purchasing Guide
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  3. Dial in savings by going direct
  4. Get your investment managed for you
  5. Diversify in one step with new type of unit trust fund
  6. Put your unit trust through the efficiency test
  7. Knowing how to choose your unit trust funds well
  8. Information vital to help new investor select the correct fund
  9. Tread carefully in Jekyll and Hyde world of unit trusts
  10. Make more with the direct approach
  11. Coming to terms with unit trust volatility
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Alternative investments

  1. Telling time in times gone by
  2. A journey into a model world
  3. Silver shines in your portfolio as well as on your mantelpiece
  4. Old books can be a licence to print money
  5. The family treasure -- or trinket?
  6. If wine prices don't rise, you can always drink your assets
  7. Persia's beauties maintain value while treating your senses
  8. Betting on a bottle of the best bubbly
  9. Fountain pens could keep you out of the red ink
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Portfolio investment

  1. Choose a broker who suits your needs

    Broker List
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  2. Income-bearing funds are a safer haven for your cash
  3. Your guide to the best investment portfolio
  4. How to avoid unscrupulous financial advisers
  5. Investors see the value of buying and selling second-hand endowment policies
  6. Jump aboard the "bondwagon" before it's too late
  7. Hedge funds reduce risk without jeopardising returns
  8. Watch those newly listed shares carefully
  9. Use indices to wisen up your investment decisions
  10. How futures close-outs affect the value of your shares
  11. Investment trusts cost less and pay more than units
  12. Keep a sharp eye on N shares for the occasional jackpot
  13. Keep your options open on derivatives
  14. Use ratios to understand the value of shares
  15. Money market funds offer low risk investment potential
  16. The good and the bad of lump sum investments
  17. The stakes are high in the chase for those big returns
  18. Costs of growth plan may be worthwhile
  19. Growth plan makes swopping funds easier
  20. Has the glitter gone out of gold forever?
  21. Beat the top fund managers at their own game
  22. Managed funds for the prudent and the bold
  23. Fledgling investment concept looks set to take off
  24. 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.
  25. Business Times share portfolio Q1 report
  26. Top funds get the risk and return mix right
  27. Business Times share portfolio for 1997
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