If I got a dollar for every email I receive containing the line – “How do I start investing?” – I would make a lot more money each day than I am now. But seriously, this question is posed so often to me now that I have even drafted up a standard email template in [...]

What do you do when you are down in the dumps and no one will lend you capital? Well, you can either start selling your assets or you can lean on the shoulder of your richest friends who were sceptical of the entire mortgage market. That’s what Goldman Sachs has managed to do and thus [...]

Hi Guys, As part of the Small Stocks redesign – we want you to let us know what sort of education you want to read about. We have plenty of content that we can post about but we thought that it would be much easier to simply ask you, as the readers of Small Stocks [...]

The following is an explanation of your Life Cycle Investment Timeline Growth Period (Age 20 - 35) You are attempting to accumulate assets in order to achieve immediate needs or long term goals Your acceptance of risk is fairly high because you realize that you have a long investment horizon in which you can accumulate more [...]

In setting your investment goals, your age is a very important factor. The age of an investor is usually positively correlated (moves in a positive or same direction) with the type of investments they will commit to. This means that as you get closer to your retirement, you will typically move away from investments that [...]