Archive for 'Investing'

Saving, Investing and Trading – What is the difference?

Many individuals use the terms savings and investing interchangeably, they are not the same thing. Saving is when you put your capital straight into a low risk low risk investment like a savings account or a high interest capital market account, where there is very little risk to the funds you have to invest. Investing [...]

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Definition of a hedge fund

What is a hedge fund? A Hedge Fund is a generic name for a pool of funds invested in a particular approach in a number of financial products and markets with the only aim of making an absolute return. Hedge Funds were originally investments that had a great deal of risks hedged, so theoretically, these [...]

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Are you new to online investing? Start here

With all the recent turmoils in the financial markets and also the world economic climate our financial future might be progressively unclear. Do you think you’re ready for that path of uncertainty that lies ahead? I’m talking about that unavoidable, but unknown path which results in the future. Things are transforming so quickly, I can [...]

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Q & A with Warren Buffett at 2008′s Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders meeting

What does it take to become a successful investor? Brilliance or Smartness?

Neither, Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that gets other people into trouble in investing.

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