Hill Samuel International Trust

Advantages: Easy to navigate around
Disadvantages: Overwhelming at times

...iii.co.uk, or interactive investor international, is quite simply a brilliant website, catering for all kinds of investors. It is packed with up to date, useful information, with a wealth of tools, for punters with varying leels of experience and investment objectives. The bulletin boards also provide and excellent forum in which traders and joe public can discuss individual shares, unit trusts or anything financial. In addition, sponsorship deals have now made it possible to have links with other companies selling financial products. A must for all you serious investors out there.... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap, good US coverage, good photography
Disadvantages: Too US centric

...The offer was very tempting £19.99 50 copies of Newsweek International over the next year. As a bit of a news junkie and occasional reader of Time, Business Week and Newsweek it seemed like an excellent offer. The magazine is supposedly the International version of the US domestic version. But International in this context seems to refer to where you live rather than what the news is about. The magazine claims to cover news internationally but actually serves up mainly US news to an international audience. In the last few weeks the news in Newsweek has been almost exclusively about the presidential elections, which even for the more the die-hard of news lovers, has been tedious in the extreme. If you want to know about what goes on in the US, then Newsweek is one of the better weekly news magazines, but don’t expect to get... Read review

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Advantages: Efficient, reliable and reasonable value
Disadvantages: No obvious problems

...to be expected: they should not be anything surprising. Nonetheless, there are sectors of the market where the risk is not just of poor returns but of actual losses. Over the long term one can perhaps ride these out, but it's vital to remember that the risks are such that one can lose money on equities. Now, there are two things that one can do to limit these risks and their consequences. The first is to adopt the principle that one should never invest more in these investments than one is prepared to lose. So, something which is far from guaranteed may default and pay out nothing or very little: if you don't put in money which you can't afford to lose, you won't be finanicially crippled, whatever happens. Second, however, you can diversify, and that is where unit trusts come in. Instead of risking your capital on a small selection of equities... Read review

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