Active investing is not s good investment strategy for most retail investors. Passive investing trumps active investing in the developed markets. But does it make sense to follow active investing in emerging markets? According to a recent article at CityWire, active investing makes sense in emerging market due to many reasons. The article notes some …
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Gold is an important asset class that investors should not avoid. Though gold does not produce income such as dividends from stocks for example, they offer many other advantages. For example, gold has low co-relation to equities and traditionally offer downside protection to a diversified portfolio during adverse market conditions. When equity markets crash investors …
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Investors should always focus on their long-term goals and hold stocks for the long-term. Building fabulous wealth with equity investing needs patience and those investors that own stocks thru bull and bear markets are usually rewarded well by the market. The following chart graphically shows the performance of UK equity market over many events since …
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The benefits of Cloud computing cannot be under estimated. The biggest player in this new technology is the e-commerce giant Amazon(AMZN). Amazon Web Services(AWS) generated over $12.0 in revenue in 2016. Other companies such as Microsoft(MSFT), Alphabet(GOOG) are also growing their cloud offerings. The following chart shows some of the benefits of cloud computing over …
Many of the companies in the FTSE 100 index are still down from their all their highs reached before the Global Financial Crisis(GFC) of 2006-07. Despite the index reaching all high records recently these companies’ stocks are languishing. Some of them may never recover their previous highs in our life times. This is especially true …
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