DIY Investor Magazine
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December 2015
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DIY Investor Magazine
delivers education and
information, it does not
offer advice.
DIY Investor Magazine delivers education and information,
it does not offer advice.
As 2015 draws to a close, we look back on a year of
uncertainty. The early part of the year saw volatile
markets with much speculation about the knock on
effect of what was seen as an almost inevitable Greek
default and the likely make up of our next coalition
government.
Oil prices remained lower and for longer than most
predicted, the debt crisis brought woe and deflationary
pressure to the Eurozone, and China gave markets the
collywobbles.
Elsewhere, headlines such as ‘Travel Stocks Drag
FTSE Lower in Paris Terror Fallout’ neatly display how
political and economic affairs entwine on a global scale;
James Carthew
from
looks at
the bigger picture that may influence the performance
of your investments.
However much markets may dislike uncertainty spare
a thought for those taking control of their finances
for the first time; more than 200,000 people took
advantage of new pension freedoms this year and ‘DIY
Investing’ passed into the public lexicon.
Speculators may benefit from the fact that many
believe emerging markets to be undervalued or indeed
that the US is considered expensive; for most the
choice is not between buying an annuity or ploughing
their pot into MICEX, it is about looking for solid and
predictable long term investment returns.
As a report highlights the danger that if UK pensioners
spend in the same way as their American and
Australian cousins they could outlive their pension pot
by more than a decade, DIY Investor Magazine looks at
some of the options that exist for prudent investors.
DIY INVESTOR
WE’LL SAVE ANY SOOTHSAYING FOR THE FIRST
EDITION OF NEXT YEAR, BUT BROKERS AND
PLATFORMS AGREE THAT THE CHRISTMAS AND NEW
YEAR PERIOD IS THEIR BUSIEST AS RESOLUTIONS
ARE MADE AND ISA SEASON GETS UNDER WAY.
