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Your New Years’ Investment Resolution for 2015 … to make money!

Your New Years’ Investment Resolution for 2015 … to make money! Easier said than done right? If your Christmas/New Years’ break was anything like mine, I overindulged in food and drink, spent a lot of time catching up on chores around the house, and spent plenty of time at the beach and visiting friends and […]

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Jal Mahal palace in Jaipur, India, with the text "Is there an Indian summer of opportunities?"

Indian Summer of Opportunities in a Fast-Growing Country

Is there an Indian summer of opportunities in one of the World’s:  most interesting countries? The World’s second most populous country. The World’s biggest democracy, the World’s seventh largest by area country, 10th largest by nominal GDP and 3rd largest by purchasing power parity. All very impressive, and all facts that can be use to

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Why trading headlines will help you lose money for no real reason.

Why trading headlines will help you lose money for no real reason: Let’s face it, we all love a great headline and right now, in financial markets. Nothing could summarise things more clearly than the above. Let me explain. This week I was planning on writing an article on oil. Very topical given the price

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Could you imagine if a simple question could make you rethink everything

Could you imagine if a simple question could make you rethink everything you’ve ever traded for the past 20 years?

Let me ask you a question – one I just got asked myself… Could you imagine if a simple question could make you rethink everything you’ve ever traded for the past 20 years? Have you ever felt stressed, when making an investment decision? Fair enough too – remember writing that deposit cheque out when you

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Imagine earning more than $300m in your career and then BOOM - being bankrupt?

Imagine earning more than $300m in your career and then BOOM – being bankrupt?

That sounds almost impossible but it’s not. It happened and it happens!!  A few years back I had the opportunity to go on a speaking tour with none other than Mike Tyson.  Talk about an interesting week – Perhaps a chat for another time!!!  So back to Iron Mike, in his career, he earned more

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