In an erratic and unstable economy, investors may be tempted to run for cover, yet the impulse to shut down and panic can make it all the more difficult for them to meet their individual investment goals. There exists a principle that the recent volatility is fundamentally driven by fear [...]
In its latest submission to the ongoing Australian Senate inquiry, the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) came into a final decision that bitcoin and similar other cryptocurrencies are not financial products. ASIC, which maintains Australian organisations, financial markets and services, and finance sector professionals have made a conclusion that [...]
The range of financial markets available to investors in general is growing rapidly in a daily basis. Spread betting and binary bets are two common investment forms that have been introduced just recently are increasingly becoming very popular in Europe which are primarily based upon similar principles. Spreads and binaries [...]
Offshore wind developers could be set to receive an advantage from a new round of Government subsidies for renewable energy after a larger-than-expected Westminster funding committed its efforts towards a single objective. A new tranche of support for renewable projects, with industry body Scottish Renewables could help bolster prospects for [...]
Value in managed volatility are drawn from equity-like exposure with lower volatility, similar returns, and better downside performance. When clients seek a financial adviser's counsel, they normally rouse their dreams of a major upside and it is very important that clients be assisted in their risks by creating a balanced [...]
The Australian contract for difference and exchange-traded fund markets continued in its expansion this year as more and more investors are searching for much greater or at least more predictable returns that can be created by traditional equities. Investors have been seemingly ensnared to these two very distinct products since [...]
What is market timing? The most sought after advice in the book is to purchase and sell high and market timing is an attempt to do the same old thing once more which is to sell when the market is high and buy when it is low. Obviously, it is [...]
Nasdaq is pressing forward with its long-touted intentions to clear some of the foreign exchange instruments in Europe as local regulators are now being finalised with regards to mandatory rules for trading off-exchange derivatives. The United States-Nordic Group has lodge an application in the past weeks with the European regulators [...]
ICAP founder Michael Spencer has sold his spread betting firm City Index for $118 million. The buyer was Bedminster, NJ based GAIN Capital, a U.S. firm that will now be servicing over 230,000 customers with the addition of their newest acquisition. The combined trade volume of GAIN’s transaction will now [...]
Spread betting is an option to conventional investing in which the goal is to profit from movements in the value of financial product. The rewards and the risks are much more higher than traditional trading. Spread betting came a long way over the past two decades, wherein it is [...]
