Real Name: MindfulMoney
Occupation: Publisher
Interests: Commodities, Economics, Emerging Markets
About Me:
We are a social news and knowledge network that reflects the viewpoints, interests and conversations of the online financial community.
Our aim is to provide investors with context and perspective, which we do by drawing on a wide range of sources, from organizational psychoanalysts to individual reader comments and key blogs.
We're about sharing knowledge and information in an engaging and jargon free style, and we hope you join the conversation.
We are a social news and knowledge network that reflects the viewpoints, interests and conversations of the online financial community. Our aim is to provide investors with context and perspective, which we do by drawing on a wide range of sources, from organizational psychoanalysts to individual reader comments and key blogs. We're about sharing knowledge and information in an engaging and jargon free style, and we hope you join the conversation.
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Market volatility is never fun, but before the 2008 crisis if investors couldn't stand the heat, at least there was a way out of the kitchen: They could shift to the safe haven asset classes of government bonds, gold or cash. Returns were lower, investors may not have had the same protection against inflation, but they could be comfortable that their cash was safe. The…
The discovery by UBS that a rogue trader has run up $2 billion of losses, has raised not just a question over the Swiss bank's future but also as to how such an event could happen again? UBS losses, the London Evening Standard predicts could "prove to be the catalyst for the Swiss regulator to close down the loss-making, gaffe-prone investment bank". The bank, it…
Millions of public sector workers, including the police, teachers and nurses, will see their pension pots slashed in a series of far-reaching reforms unveiled by Lord Hutton. The Daily Mail reported the story as "public sector staff told: work for longer and get a smaller pension". It said public sector workers would have to work more than a decade longer for a less generous retirement…
The correlation between equity and commodity-based investments are closer than most people realize, blogs Gemma Godfrey. With the recent turbulence in the Middle East, the outlook for oil has returned to the headlines. Many are concentrating on supply and demand issues and clamber to correctly predict where prices will be by year end. What few are focusing on is of key concern in constructing a…
A JP Morgan media fund is considering buying a substantial stake in social networking site Twitter.com. Sources say the fund hopes to acquire 10% of the micro-blogging site for $450m. The investment puts Twitter's total value at $4.5bn or £2.8bn. However, it is not clear if the JPMorgan fund will make a direct investment or buy out existing investors and shareholders with Twitter's approval. The…
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