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Coal painted gold with a brush – Financial advice on identifying genuine investment opportunities

Chasing Alpha: Fools Gold!

As an investor you are constantly inundated with information: Where is the market heading, top 5 buys, top 5 sells etc. This clamour will increase in pitch as we approach the end of the year with predictions for which way the market is headed next year, it will roll in to it elections, status of large projects, weather predictions etc. and yet somehow there will still be several unanticipated events – some government falling, attack or sanction by the UN / USA and everything will be abuzz and different to the predictions anyway. This will all be exciting and exhilarating stuff, calling out to all investors to keep watching the latest updates. We have been saying for many years, it makes sense for the media to turn finance and investing into entertainment, to get more eyeballs and therefore advertising big bucks for them. Clearly, it is a self-serving purpose and they are not really doing you any favour.

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FAANG Investing

The financial media is drawn to catchphrases –acronyms and buzzwords that can be sold as the new thing. ‘FAANG’ (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google) is the latest of these. But does this constitute an investment strategy?

Phishing

Fraud & Scams

Technology, it makes our lives simpler with ever-advancing, smarter access to our bank accounts and social media. Our lives are online, and the fraudsters know it. They are keeping up with technology and it’s up to organisations and ourselves to keep one step ahead of them to avoid falling victim.

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Putting the human into investing

What’s the ideal investment strategy? Is now a good time to be in shares? How do you get a decent return on cash investments? Should currency risk be hedged?

Questions of this kind, often seen in the financial media, tend to confuse means with ends. The answer in every case is “it depends”.