Category: Risk
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FCA ramps up warnings over online investment scams
The FCA is warning the public to be vigilant protecting themselves from online investment fraud, with figures showing investors lost an approximate daily amount of £87,410 to binary options scams last year. Latest data from the FCA’s Scam Smart campaign shows the kind of investor being targeted by online investment scams is changing. The regulator says those under 25 were…
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Recent Market Volatility
Well, have the Markets settled down again? I honestly don’t know. In 30 years of business, the markets have never really settled down in my opinion. “Settled down” to me means a straight line in an upward trend on an ongoing basis. Bbut markets don’t behave like that. They are constantly moving up and down,…
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Stock Prices Slide as Market Volatility Returns
One of our favoured Investment houses, SEI, has commented on the current position of the Stock Market’s volatility. The extended period of calm for equity markets in recent years has come to a halt, pulling global markets lower. While declines can be disconcerting, they are a normal development in the course of market movements. The…
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A New Type of Income Protection Plan. Would It Suit You? …Read On
Aviva has launched an income protection plan covering basic living costs that could help the self-employed and contractors. The insurer’s Living Costs Protection product provides a monthly fixed benefit of between £500 and £1,500 to cover outgoings such as a mortgage, rent or bills if an individual cannot work due to illness or injury. There is…
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Why SEI is not investing in cryptocurrencies
We as a Company have used the Investment House, SEI, in conjunction with a number of our Clients investments and have always found them to be an excellent choice with excellent returns. We therefore respect their views and we thought their views on Bitcoins would be interesting to our readers. They write… “In the…