For those involved, spread betting and CFD trading can be pretty hectic. You have to constantly keep with developments in share prices and reports on the performance of companies whose stock you’ve bet on. If you’re spread betting on the performance of an entire stock exchange like the FTSE 100 or the XETRA DAX, the [...]

There are currently no formal qualifications or regulatory mechanisms used to check whether a trustee has sufficient knowledge and experience to manage a pension trust fund and deliver trustee services. As such the process for selecting a professional trustee will largely come down to common sense on the part of those appointing the trustee (to [...]

All that glitters is not gold. So is gold real money or, as Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman in the USA declared, is it a precious metal? Interestingly, Hinde Capital is a London based Investment Manager established to launch its first fund specialising in the precious metals sector. According to Richard Nixon, gold has [...]

How many people stop to consider, ‘should I buy gold?’ With the banking system in turmoil, it’s a question being increasingly asked. In fact, a recent survey has found that almost 40% in the UK prefer gold to cash. Gold bullion is considered by many economists, financial advisors, and investment managers as one of the [...]

Gold rose to an unprecedented $1,920 per ounce on Tuesday 6th September 2011, this came as fears grew over the Eurozone financial crisis. The Euro has been in severe trouble recently, with Greece and Italy struggling to pay their debts. Fears over whether this could push the financial world back into recession have made gold [...]

There is hardly a single industry on earth that has not been impacted by the ever increasing importance of the internet. All most all products, even those which were previously hard to come across, can now be found online and purchased, normally at a significantly lower price than you might have paid elsewhere. The world [...]

What is Fund Management? Fund management or investment management as it is more commonly called is a form of professional management of various securities such as shares, bonds, or other stocks as well as assets such a vehicles or real estate which meet the specific goals of the investors, which can be insurance companies, pension [...]

What is a pension? A pension is an amount of money rewarded to an individual based on his or her working experience. These pensions are usually issued by companies in which the employee worked for during a specific period of time, though pensions can also be issued by insurance companies, trade unions, or the government [...]

Investment trusts are global equity portfolios that provide returns in the form of dividends and increased share value. Investment trusts are popular with investors in the United Kingdom. Money from investment trusts is placed in collective equities across the world. The fund has a limited number of shares and in the UK they are managed [...]

What are Bonds? A bond is a debt security means where the person or company that issues the bond owns the bond holder’s debt. Basically, a bond is a financial contract between the issuer and the bond holder with the agreement to pay money back with intrest at scheduled, fixed intervals. A bond is essentially [...]