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Investors must shop around for the lowest cost ISA to prevent excessive charges taking a big bite out of their savings

SimplyStockbroking is urging investors to shop around for the lowest cost ISA to prevent excessive charges taking a big bite out of their savings in today’s low growth economy. SimplyStockbroking’s self select stocks and shares ISA levies no fixed annual management charges for the ISA wrapper. It charges investors just £8 per trade to buy and sell a wide range of investments in their ISAs inclu... [more]

Strong increase in inflation is a real blow to savers

The recent announcement by the Bank of England on the biggest increase in inflation since records began spells bad news for savers with only a handful of savings products now paying high enough interest to offset the effects of inflation. Basic rate tax payers will now need an account paying at least 3.63 per cent to gain benefit in real terms from their savings, increasing to 4.84 per cent for... [more]

Fantasy Trader gives investors an opportunity to trade on real stock markets

Halifax Share Dealing has launched Fantasy Trader that gives investors an opportunity to trade on real stock markets, with a virtual £10,000 through a practice share dealing account. Fantasy Trader gives customers a chance to experiment with new trading strategies to see how they could potentially boost their investment returns by diversifying their portfolio. It also gives them the opportunity... [more]

Online purchasing of art and antiques on the rise

The live online bidding site The-saleroom.com has recorded a 120 per cent year-on-year increase in bidder numbers in 2009, revealing growing buyer confidence in purchasing art and antiques online. In a year when recession and credit issues dominated the headlines, the-saleroom.com bucked the trend with revenues generated by the site increasing by 55 per cent year-on-year. The value of lots sol... [more]

British savers more likely to save money in the next 12 months

According to recent research by NS&I, the British population is increasingly confident about the ability to save more in the coming year. Perhaps encouraged by recent reports of a financial upturn, British savers are more confident in their outlook with over a quarter of the population (27%) saying they are more likely to save money in the next 12 months than they did last year. The NS&I figure... [more]

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Citigroup Reportedly Agrees To Sell Real Estate Investment Unit To Apollo Global Management - Update (MalaysiaNews.net)

News ) reportedly agreed Tuesday to sell its real-estate investment business Citi Property Investors under Citi Holdings, to private equity firm Apollo Global Management LLC. The unit has about 65 inv...

Eastday-Forex investment strategy revealed (Eastday.com)

CHINA regards United States Treasuries as important but is wary about gold as an alternative when it comes time to diversify the world's biggest foreign exchange reserves, the nation's top currency regulator said yesterday.

Record start to the year for investment funds (Daily Telegraph)

Investment funds enjoyed a record-breaking January as low interest rates caused consumers to look for alternative homes for their cash, new figures show.

GDC: 2D Boy's Carmel On A New Alternative For Indies (Gamasutra)

2D Boy's Ron Carmel calls relationships between indies and publishers "a system that never worked". At the 2010 Independent Gaming Summit at the Game Developers Conference, he explained why -- and detailed the Indie Fund, a new alternative for independent games funding. When software development began to be conisdered as an engineering field, design came before building -- the "waterfall ...

GDC: 2DBoy's Carmel On A New Alternative For Indies (Gamasutra)

2DBoy's Ron Carmel calls relationships between indies and publishers "a system that never worked". At the 2010 Independent Gaming Summit at the Game Developers Conference, he explained why -- and detailed the Indie Fund, a new alternative for independent games funding. When software development began to be conisdered as an engineering field, design came before building -- the "waterfall approach ...

Gold Declines in New York on Stronger Dollar, Chinese Reserves (Bloomberg)

March 9 (Bloomberg) -- Gold in New York fell to the lowest price in more than a week as the a strengthening dollar reduced demand for the metal as an alternative asset and China said bullion probably won’t be the country’s main reserve investment.

Thai alternative bourse firms posted net profits in 2009 of over THB2 billion (Thaipr.net)

Fifty-nine out of 60 companies listed on Thailand’s Market for Alternative Investment (mai) have reported their 2009 operating results. Even though total net profits in 2009 dropped by 26% on a year-o

Alternative-energy push gets bipartisan support (The Toledo Blade)

By TOM TROY BLADE POLITICS WRITER Ohio politicians from both sides of the aisle claim to champion the state's push toward using alternative energy as an economic development tool. At the state level, Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland has stepped up his emphasis on solar and other renewable energies as two of the most exciting prospects for reversing what feels like a decades-long recession in Ohio ...

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Lawmakers push pension fund to invest taxpayer dollars in biotech (The Washington DC Examiner)

ANNAPOLIS -- Lawmakers are trying to require that $50 million of Maryland's pension money be invested in up-and-coming bioscience and green technology companies, which the pension fund's managers say are risky, low-return investments.

Colombia’s Proteccion to Invest in Private Equity (Update2) (Bloomberg)

March 9 (Bloomberg) -- Proteccion SA , Colombia’s second- biggest pension fund, plans to invest 2.4 trillion pesos ($1.3 billion) in private equity in the next two years after reaching the government-set limit on stocks.

Buy Taiwanese Stocks With China Ties, Island’s Top Fund Says (BusinessWeek)

Investors should buy shares of Taiwanese companies that benefit most from the island’s closer ties with China, according to the manager of Taiwan’s best- performing equities fund.

Mutual Fund Investors Still Wary Of Stocks (Fox News)

Mutual Fund Investors Still Wary Of Stocks

AMB launches Islamic capital-protected fund (MalaysiaNews.net)

edy@thestar.com.my KUALA LUMPUR: Amanah Mutual Bhd (AMB), the subsidiary of Amanah Saham Nasional Bhd, has launched a Islamic capital-protected fund, AMD Dana Aqeel, to take advantage of the current s...

AMB launches Islamic capital-protected fund (The Star)

KUALA LUMPUR: Amanah Mutual Bhd (AMB), the subsidiary of Amanah Saham Nasional Bhd, has launched a Islamic capital-protected fund, AMD Dana Aqeel, to take advantage of the current strong demand by investors for such products.

Mochi Media Launches $10 Million Investment Fund, Rolls Out Social Gaming Platform (TechCrunch)

Fresh off an $80 million acquisition by Shanda Games, Flash game advertising network and payments platform Mochi Media is launching a social gaming platform and a $10 million fund to invest in game developers. Mochi Social allow developers to build social features into their games such as inviting friends, sending gifts, or posting to an activity stream. Mochi Social allows for the ability to ...

Bridgewater borrowed $1.5 million from community preservation fund in January (Bridgewater Independent)

The Bridgewater treasurer’s office borrowed $1.5 million from the community preservation fund in January without the Community Preservation Committee’s knowledge or approval and the money has not yet been returned, town officials said.

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