Money

Saving and Investment

How Compound Interest Gives Savers High Yields

FTSE100 Chart 1970-2009Get Rich by Compounding High Interest Savings from Childhood

It is never too early to start investing for the future. With compound interest starting saving a few years earlier will give high yield on savings or pensions.

If parents or grandparents were to create a high yield savings account and invest £1,000 (or Dollars or Euros) when a child is born it could easily become £5,500 by the time the child was eighteen years old. At retirement, at say sixty, that would have become over £300,000. Waiting just five years and retiring at sixty-five would increase the sum to almost £500,000.

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Best Time to Start Retirement Investing for Financial Security

Major Investment CurrenciesStart investing early and regularly and compounded gains will provide financial security. Most people can achieve high wealth and retire as millionaires.

It is never too early to start investing for the future. With long retirements ordinary people need to retire as millionaires to maintain their lifestyle. By starting retirement investing early it is possible to build a million pound fund with surprisingly small regular savings and without using high-yield investments which are likely to be higher risk. The later one starts the harder it is but it is always worthwhile – it is never too late.

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Smart Money Management: Why Small Interest Rate Changes Matter

Unhappy PercentageThe investor needs to understand how a small difference in interest rate on long term savings makes a big difference to investment fund final performance.

Savers should closely monitor the performance of their savings as a small change in interest rate or investment return can have a major effect over the long term. So for pension investment the smart investor will seek to maximise interest rate as long as she can do so without incurring excessive penalties to switch between savings accounts or funds.

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How Pension Investment Profits are Lost by Starting Saving Late

Retirement Investment Start DatesA late start to investing for retirement will seriously reduce wealth and final pension or much more will have to be saved each month for the same income.

Delaying saving for a pension will reduce the size of the final pension fund substantially. The result will be that retirement will have to be taken later or retirement plans scaled back to match the smaller pension.

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Pros & Cons of Penny Shares

Major Investment CurrenciesPenny shares may look attractive as a source of big profits from small price movements but the pros and cons suggest investment potential may be limited.

Penny shares are usually cheap for a reason and many had strong prices in the past but the companies profit and standing has often declined taking the stock price with it.

What is a Penny Share?

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