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5 ways to invest in the blockchain/Bitcoin boom
You will have heard stories of people making a fortune trading Bitcoin – so how do you cash in on cryptocurrencies without getting your fingers burned?
Probability analysis makes a better financial trader
Following the probability analysis approach favoured by legendary investor Warren Buffett can help you to become a first class financial trader.
No banknotes or coins: is a cashless society likely?
A cashless society has been a staple of human thinking for millennia. The Garden of Eden was a cashless society. H G Wells portrayed a cashless society in The Time Machine.
When the representativeness heuristic goes bad
If you are faced with a question and you don’t know the answer, using the representativeness heuristic is a way of coming up with a plausible solution.
Should you sink your teeth into FAANG stock trades?
Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google make up more than 25% of America’s benchmark S&P 500 index gains this year.
Loss Aversion bias in economics and decision making
Loss aversion bias – the irrational belief that losses are bigger than similar-sized gains –can be influential in economics and investment.
Fund managers: pros and cons of single country trading
Fund managers are offering single country funds in developing markets such as China, Brazil, India and Indonesia, but do they offer great rewards and are they worth the risk?
Disposition Effect - an anomaly in behavioural finance
The disposition effect in behavioural finance is one of the many biases or partialities that people are influenced by when they make imperfect decisions, particularly in investing and market trading.
Investment bonds come under scrutiny worldwide
Investment bonds have a 'nice but dull' reputation - until recently when income-seeking investors are accepting higher risks bonds. Inflation is also posing a change for bonds.