Money Management has the title "The Professional's Independent Adviser" and is priced at £6.50. It is a monthly publication by the Financial Times with information on a variety of different financial products. The magazine covers topics such as Mortgages, Pensions, Insurance, Investment trusts ... Read review
Advantages: Excellent Financial Data, Well written articles Disadvantages: It costs £6.50, quite a few adverts appear in the publication
Money Management has the title "The Professional's Independent Adviser" and is priced at £6.50. It is a monthly publication by the Financial Times with information on a variety of different financial products. The magazine covers topics such as Mortgages, Pensions, Insurance, Investment trusts and Unit trusts.
Personally I only choose to purchase this magazine once every six months because I think it is quite a steep price ... ...decisions. The data banks in Money Management magazine are probably the best out of all the monthly financial magazines. The data banks contain both discrete and cumulative performance for Unit and Investment Trusts. Discrete performance is taken from the previous 3 years of an investments performance record and cumulative performance is the record from the previous 10 years. The volatility statistic which is the standard deviation of the share/unit ... more
Money Management has the title "The Professional's Independent Adviser" and is priced at £6.50. It is a monthly publication by the Financial Times with information on a variety of different financial products. The magazine covers topics such as Mortgages, Pensions, Insurance, Investment trusts and Unit trusts.
Personally I only choose to purchase this magazine once every six months because I think it is quite a steep price for a magazine at £6.50. The main reason I buy the publication is for the comprehensive data banks on Unit and Investment trusts to aid with analysis and decisions. The data banks in Money Management magazine are probably the best out of all the monthly financial magazines. The data banks contain both discrete and cumulative performance for Unit and Investment Trusts. Discrete performance is taken from the previous 3 years of an investments performance record and cumulative performance is the record from the previous 10 years. The volatility statistic which is the standard deviation of the share/unit price of an investment is also contained in the data bank. I have not seen any other financial publications or websites that show the volatility statistic of an investment. The volatility statisitc is useful because it gives an idea of how risky an investment is. The higher the volatility, the higher the risk. Money Management also contains data tables on Insurance funds, Pension funds and Offshore funds. All data is supplied by the financial information company Standard & Poor's.
The magazine starts off with the latest news in the financial world (news review) and has readers letters, it is titled "up Front". Like many financial magazines the news review is then followed by the article relating to the main cover story.
Money Management has an interesting section which is a product review, this section gives details of the latest products released by financial companies.
Every month Money Management contains a survey. The survey is usually made up of tables showing sales figures and new business trends on financial products such as life insurance and pensions. I think the survey is only any use to financial advisers or financial salesmen who want to see which products is selling the most, I don't think it is of much use to the consumer.
Money Management has articles which have been given the title of "spotlight", these articles usually give a good account of a financial product such as Mortgages or Protection plans. I definitely think the "spotlight" articles are of use to the consumer and would be worth reading if you were thinking of doing something with your mortgage or getting a protection plan. The "spotlight" articles would make you more informed and confident when dealing with the middle-man.
The "spotlight" on investment which appears once a month is particularly good, it is written by a former Investment Banker by the name of Russell Taylor. I always like reading the "Investment spotlight", it is well written and usually illustrated with charts. The "Investment spotlight" usually discusses the techniques involved in investment such as how to cope with risk and diversification in an investment portfolio.
Money Management magazine also has articles given the title of "Feature". Usually these articles are well written but at the same time quite technical, so may not be a good read for the novice investor. The "Feature" articles are usually written by a guest writer from a Financial Services company. The "Feature" articles cover areas such as tax efficiency, risk and investment performance.
I guess the magazine is aiming at the specialised market of the financial adviser costing £6.50 to buy. But the magazine does contain a fair amount of adverts for products and recruitment adverts. The cost of placing a recruitment advert in Money Management is £635 for quarter of a page. Many Financial Advisers and Financial Services companies have a reputation for "ripping off" the consumer, so perhaps this magazine is an attempt by the Financial Times at "ripping off" the financial advisers.
Like I said, I only purchase this magazine once every six months mainly for the data banks which are very good. The articles are well written and interesting but I am not too sure if the magazine is really worth the premium price of £6.50.
I think Money Management could be useful to the consumer who has the task of dealing with the middle man. The consumer would be more informed and knowledgeable and the middle man could not take so much of an advantage for his own personal gain.
Advantages: Instant Access to funds High rates of interest Disadvantages: Slow downloads over 56k modem
The egg website has proved to be one of the most user friendly sites in terms of accesability and range of services that i have come across for financial products. Through the use of the moneymanager add on, the customer is able to view all of their bank accounts from one place with one log on. This has proved invaluable following the labourious changes to the log on process of my banks online service.
The overall service has, in fact, proved so good that I now have an egg Isa and credit card both of which have performed admirably. The ease of setting up the isa and monitoring its performance on a daily basis is probably the best thing about eggs site, I could not recommend it highly enough. ...
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Advantages: Easy to set-up, easy to use, security like fort knox Disadvantages: you have to wait for passcodes to come in post, you can't pay in money (obviously!!)
for all your Barclays Accounts.
From here you can click on those accounts to see an up to date statement and balance or click on any link to do any of the following:-
* See Statements
* Transfer Money
* Pay Someone
* Change Contact Details
* Customise My Site
* Set Up Standing Order
* Change Payments
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* View Balances
* Export Date (to your computer)
All of the options are explained fully when you follow the link and instructions are clear and easy to follow. The only rule with Online Banking is that you must use either the enter button or click on the next or back links they provide. If you use your back browser or double click by mistake then you will be automatically logged out and have to go through security again. While this can be a nuisance if you look at it from a security point of view ...
Advantages: Still cheap when looking at historical value Disadvantages: Went down like a lead baloon with all tech stocks
all households are fully hooked up to the internet (this is becoming reality very quickly) then the true boom will start to happen. This doesn't even take into account the biotechs which are still in their infancy with DNA and Gentic Modification promising fantastic new possabilities in the near future.
So what can we expect of a fund that claims to be based around technology? Well I certainly expect it to follow the market to a great degree, but I also expect it to outperform that market seeing as there is a supposedly knowledgable guy making sure only the cream is bought, and the duffers weeded out before they lose too much cash.
Why is it then that this fund only just manages to stay ahead of a tracker fund? I personaly think the managager has not done a good job, considering all the insider tips and buying power he has at his ...
