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Investments - Answers to your questions
Top tips on buying shares: basic investment rules to help you make your own investing decisions
How to 'buy low' and 'sell high' - tips on when to sell shares and when not to sell shares.
What kind of investor are you?
You need to know the answer to this, it will decide the kind of investments you make.
What is investing? How do you go about making investment decisions and what investments are right for you.
How individual savings accounts work. What's the difference between a Maxi ISA and a Mini ISA and more.
How TESSA only ISAs (TOISAs) work; what options this replacement for Tax Efficient Special Savings Accounts offers to investors.
How the stockmarket works. What are shares and why you may wish to consider stockmarket investment.
How to buy shares/sell shares online. Why online trading may make sense. What you need to know about online trading.
How spread betting works. Gambling with spread bets allows small bets to make large profits or losses through gearing.
Traded Endowment Policies (TEPs)
Why buy a TEP - somebody else's endowment? How a traded endowment policy may make investment sense.
Billions of pounds were invested in PEPs between 1987 and 1999. How should you manage your PEP investments now?
Why you should consider unit trusts. How unit trusts work collectively to make your money more powerful.
Investment Trusts Guide. What are investment trusts, how to choose and invest in investment trusts, what is the tax situation for investment trusts and how to get more information.
Open-Ended Investment Companies (OEICs)
What are OEICs? How do they work, how you can invest in an OEIC and how they are taxed.
Learn how ethics and money can mix, find out how ethical investing and green investments work.
How government stocks (gilts) and corporate bonds work. What kind of return your bond investment will give.
Venture Capital Trusts (VCT) & Enterprise Investment Schemes (EIS)
VCTs and EISs are high risk investments with attractive tax breaks but are only for suitable investors with already diversified portfolios
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITS)
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITS) are tax efficient investment trusts that invest in real estate or property.
Related Guides & FAQs
Savings & Investments for Children
Savings for children - what's available in kids accounts, what tax benefits there are and what risk your savings may face.
How the Child Trust Fund works. Who can have a child trust fund and who can contribute to a CTF.
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