Swimming in pooled investments: Collective investments are the smaller investor's route to the stock market - but which fund should you go for?
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It is more risky to invest in one company than to invest in a broad range of shares, and putting money into a pooled fund that shares dealing costs and purchases a spread of shares is a route to the stock market for the smaller investor. Investment trusts and unit trusts are the two main types of fund. With unit trusts investors own units of a collective investment and with investment trusts or companies, investors purchase shares in a company which in turn invests money raised in the shares of other companies.
Publication Name: Investors Chronicle
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0261-3115
Year: 1995
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Paved with good intentions: ethical investments could help your bank balance as well as ease your conscience - many 'green' funds have above average performance records. What's more, polls show that most investors want to invest ethically
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Ethical investments are those made according to moral or political principles including funds which screen out companies involved in areas such as tobacco or the arms trade. Ethical unit trusts often tend not to lose thier investors even when the market is disappointing. Ethical investment also includes pensions and insurance. However ethical unit trusts only represent 1% of all money invested in unit trusts, and ignorance of ethical investments is to blame.
Publication Name: Investors Chronicle
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0261-3115
Year: 1995
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Unit trust move to stop new bond Pep rip-offs: the new corporate bond Peps will be heavilypromoted as high interest paying, secure investments. But some in the unit trust industry arelooking at ways of making clearer the risks to capital
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Autif, the unittrust managers' trade association has developed new advertising and marketing rules to avoidmisleading investors in new bond personal equity plans (Peps). The Peps could be promoted assafe, high income alternatives to building society deposits, but there is also a risk to capital. Autifaims to emphasise the risks.
Publication Name: Investors Chronicle
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0261-3115
Year: 1995
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