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Find out why Sarah turned to tackling the financial markets herself during the pandemic
Thursday 20 Feb 2025There are plenty of options these days when it comes to investing your hard-earned cash. Now in her mid-60s, Sarah first started putting her money to work in the markets in 2003 through a wealth management firm and stockbroker, however it was not until the pandemic that ‘she got the investing bug’...
Find out how Phil started his investment journey with Cable & Wireless as a teenager in the 1980s
Thursday 30 Jan 2025Keen investor Phil first got the bug in the mid-1980s when his mum bought him 100 shares in Cable & Wireless shares. Cable & Wireless was a trailblazing cable company set up more than a century ago and by the start of 2000, C&W Group, as it was then, had a market value of around £38...
How self-employed investor BrokenBanker brings his experience to bear in the markets
Thursday 09 Jan 2025For the last five years, ‘BrokenBanker’ or BB for short as he goes by online, has been managing his own financial affairs as a self-employed investor after working for more than 30 years in capital markets. With a background in fixed income and economics, it is not surprising his investment style...
From an employee share scheme at Rolls Royce to the Dogs of the FTSE – how Paul approaches the financial markets
Thursday 31 Oct 2024Paul’s very first taste of investing came when his employer, aerospace and defence company Rolls Royce (RR.) , introduced an employee share scheme which gave him what seemed to be a low-risk way of getting exposure to its shares. It seemed low risk, explains Paul, because the scheme allowed...
Why portfolio construction matters and how it can help you reach your investments goals
Thursday 19 Sep 2024This feature marks two new beginnings. The first is a three-part-series exploring portfolio construction, management and how to adapt for major life milestones. It is also the start of a brand-new section in the magazine. We want to find out how readers approach their own investment portfolios and...