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Tips and tricks for investing safely and simply, from how to do your own research to different strategies

What does maturity mean?

If an investment has reached maturity it means that it has paid out the original purchase amount, and the investment agreement has come to an end.

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What is risk management?

Risk management is the process of identifying, analysing and choosing whether to accept the risk involved in your investment decision or trying to limit it.

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What is diversification?

Diversification reduces the risk of a large concentrated loss. And instead spreads out your investments among a number of different areas.

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What is a security?

A security is an umbrella term used for virtually any asset issued by a company or other common enterprise that can be bought and sold, but classification depends on the regulator in a country.

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What is a fund?

Although the name can mean a lot of different things, you’ve most likely interacted with or set up a fund of your own at some point, be it a money pool at work or a savings fund for a rainy…

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What is an ETF?

You’ve probably heard the expression ‘don’t put all your eggs in one basket’, a warning about investing too much in one particular area over others. An exchange-traded fund (ETF) takes that expression literally as it packages a number of securities…

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What is liquidity?

Liquidity refers to the ease of converting assets into cash. High liquidity means there is an abundance of buyers and sellers for an asset, which makes it easy to complete trades. Low liquidity, or illiquid markets, have low numbers of…

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What is equity?

Equity is quite a broad term and has a number of applications in finance. Primarily it refers to a shareholder’s size of ownership in a company and the value of the shares if they were sold off once any debts…

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What is risk?

Risk is the chance of something happening that can impact an investment or financial responsibility. Measuring risk depends on the type of asset, the amount of capital used and the timeframes an investor plans to wait before selling. Risk can…

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