Tesco shares closed the day down -12.98% in what is another reminder to investors of the importance of diversifying their investment capital across a wide range of companies, sectors and geographies to reduce exposure to specific risks such as the announcement of a profit warning or poor sales figures.
Continue reading...It’s true. Big money can be made from hedge funds. If you run one, that is. That’s the conclusion of a new book, which says people who invest in hedge funds would have been better off over the past nine years if they had stuck to a broadly diversified portfolio of vanilla stocks and bonds. [...]
Continue reading...New Year’s resolutions often involve making promises to ourselves we can never keep. But instead of tilting at windmills, we can often generate better results by merely resolving to be smarter in certain areas. And money is a good place to start. One human tendency is to judge the effectiveness of our investment strategies by [...]
Continue reading...It’s that time of year again, when harried finance editors ask reporters to call investment professionals and cobble together top predictions for the coming year. These are fun to write. But for readers, they’re more entertaining a year later. Take the late 2010 Barclays Capital Global Macro Survey of more than two thousand institutional investors. [...]
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