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The 20 Golden Rules of Investment

Investing your own money is a complicated and potentially dangerous business. One slip in the tricky world of stocks and shares can prove very costly. So Times Money offers a guide on how to survive and profit in the investment jungle.

1) Buy low; sell high.

2) Don’t chase performance. If you like a stock or [...]

Beginner’s guide to hedge funds

Extracted from http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/reader_guides/article3034518.ece

Hedge funds have acquired a fearsome reputation in recent years, largely because people still remember how George Soros’s Quantum Fund helped to force the pound out of the European exchange-rate mechanism in 1992.

The irony is that, despite their high-risk image, hedge funds were originally designed to protect against risk, rather than maximise [...]