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Investors' Alphabet: T is for Tracking error

Story by: Nick Rice, Investment Adviser

Most investors who try to grow their money in long-only equities find themselves in a mental quandary.

• Time published: 12:49
• Date published: 08.09.2008
• Published in: Investments

Sector with huge recovery potential

Jupiter's Philip Gibbs expects financials to bounce back from current setbacks

• Date published: 08.09.2008

US economy defies anxieties

The latest data coming from the US has suggested that the economy is more resilient than most market watchers had expected.

• Date published: 08.09.2008

Things could start to get very bad indeed

Conservative investnment advised as portfoilios decline and mortgage loan defaults soar

• Date published: 08.09.2008

Internet site boosts investor power

The forward march of the ethically inclined has claimed more ground Stateside with the launch of a website that encourages shareholders to vote and sway corporate behaviour.

• Date published: 08.09.2008

Take care with cautious

Investors should use care in selecting a cautious managed fund. Part of the issue is the liberal definition of "cautious" used by fund trade association.

• Date published: 08.09.2008

The tightrope walk to save the economy

The Fed must choose policies that will avoid either a new dollar crash pr a worsening recession

• Date published: 08.09.2008

I did thirst for gasoline, but Riesling also goes down well

As a boy, I loved the smell of petrol so much I thought it was unfair that you weren’t allowed to drink it.

• Date published: 08.09.2008

What to do now the party is over

Managers must now decide how to play the next stage of the market cycle

• Date published: 08.09.2008

That dratted rise in furry food prices

While here in the UK food price inflation means accepting paying a little more for our hummous and brie, it has more far-reaching consequences for people in Cambodia, where people are choosing to eat rat meat as the price of other meat soars.

• Date published: 08.09.2008

How to twist your man around your finger

“In Switzerland they’ve had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what have they produced? The cuckoo clock,” improvised Orson Welles in the famous Ferris wheel scene in the 1940s film noir the Third Man.

• Date published: 08.09.2008

€1 for a home? The catch...

Gordon Brown may have come under attack for his "too little, too late" policies targeted at rejuvenating the flagging domestic housing market, but let's hope he doesn't follow the Italians' desperate bid.

• Date published: 08.09.2008

New world order

Skyscrapers often act as the barometers of changing economic climates.

• Date published: 08.09.2008