The Close UK Escalator 95 Fund is a protected unit trust which has been designed to provide returns linked to the growth of the FTSE 100 Share Index. With 95% protection from falls This fund is best suitable for low risk taking people but who are unwilling to take direct share market exposure risk.

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ETF Securities commodity investment
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Advantages: An easy method of including commodities in your investment portfolio
Disadvantages: ETFs and ETCs are a new idea, commodity investment always has been risky

...called 'exchange traded funds' or ETFs that track commodity prices. You can buy ETFs that track ... Read review

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Very knowledgable and informative review. Excellent ! by miketurner

Brilliant review xx by lilyellowfish

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Advantages: Strong history, excellent customer service
Disadvantages: Can the good returns continue indefinitely?

The Aberdeen New Dawn fund is an Investment Trust (basically, a company that invests in the shares of other companies) listed on the UK stock market that aims to provide its shareholders with capital growth through investing in companies in Asian Pacific ... Read review

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Looks brilliant, always nice to to learn about things like this by Expired-Account

Good interesting review. by Mickie26

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Advantages: avoid
Disadvantages: avoid

- 'Darling buds of dismay' - Northern Rock fiasco (sept 2007) Crisis! What crisis? It's just remarkable that it was a week ago that Northern Rock was apparently in melt-down. All sorted now - Perfic! - At the time it was strange to see the savers amon ... Read review

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Give me shout when you get it moved and I'll pop back x by missy0303

ditto by elspeth334

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Thank you Tony Blair you opened our eyes and minds
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Advantages: ISA, Ease of use, multiple funds under one umbrella.
Disadvantages: Time delay in receiving redemption payouts.

INTRODUCTION: Fidelity Investments is one of the worlds largest privately owned asset management organisations. It opened its research office in London in 1973 and six years later offered funds to UK investors. It is now a leading provider of ISA's an ... Read review

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That is useful to know - I've been pondering over investing with Fidelity and have been inpressed by both the range of funds and the user-friendly nature of the website (so many investment places don't have that!). by Collingwood21

Excellent review, very useful by snootyjim

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Fidelity is hot on research
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Hard to withdraw my ISA funds
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Advantages: No charges
Disadvantages: None

I live near Dundee, the home of Alliance Trust and Alliance Trust Savings. Its just about the biggest in the UK and been going a very very long time. I have had my PEP and ISA accounts there for over a decade. By investing through Alliance Trust Savings ... Read review

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sorry but this review needs more info to warrant a higher rating , read and rate some reviews from other members for hints and tips, good luck and welcome to ciao, by oakleigh

Hello and welcome to Ciao. Your review will need a lot more info for you to get higher ratings. Try having a look at other peoples reviews on the same subject to give you an idea of what sort of info people are looking for. xx by daylehall

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Self Select ISA with no fee
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Advantages: they're not bad but far from the best
Disadvantages: very expensive management charges

At 1% management charges, Virgin are very expensive. There are plenty of other UK Trackers which do the same job with charges from 0.1% - 0.5%. Why would you want to give them extra cash? I know that some others (especially the biggest banks) not only ... Read review

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As below by Bens__mummy

Welcome to Ciao. If you could provide more detail and make it more reader friendly...maybe take a couple of pointers off other reviewers work and update then you will get a higher rating. If you do edit then get back to me and I will re-rate. Also a good idea to rate others work...will ake it more likely that they visit your reviews now and in the future. Terry by Dudo_Perudo

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Virgin Direct all share tracker
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Virgin Direct UK Index Tracking Trust
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Advantages: Tax free savings,Life cover,chice of low payments,Great service and very easy
Disadvantages: n/a.You need to check the payout forecast

For a while now I had been looking to put a small amount of money away each month. I found out that the Government lets you invest up to £25 a month with a friendly society and that this can be done without paying any tax, even when you get the final pay ... Read review

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sounds great may have to look more into it Barry by bazzaoleary77

Always looking for investment ideas-will have to look into this one a bit more. Ann by anwar

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Advantages: £25 minimum, Three choices of Funds, Top 18 Fund Managers
Disadvantages: bi-annual statements, no website

About a year ago I joined Abbey's Multi Manager Service. At first when I met their Investment specialist I didnt know what to really expect. I always wanted to dabble in stocks and shares but didn't want to spend loads of money doing it. One year later ... Read review

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title sounds like my exam mark! lol, interesting read. gaunty by gaunts

Very nice review Barry by bazzaoleary77

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Advantages: Low cost/easy to manage/good customer service
Disadvantages: Lots of paperwork/ postal correspondence

I have had my Virgin ISA for around 10 months and can't really fault the product or their service. The fund has low charges (1% annual management fees, no other charges for entry/exit fees etc.) and fairly closely follows the FTSE All-Share index. You c ... Read review

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Thanks for the read by melodysparks

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Virgin Direct all share tracker
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Virgin Direct UK Index tracker too expensive
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Advantages: It is supposed to have low fees _ I havent' check this though
Disadvantages: Slow and complicated to get the funds out

I found the process of withdrawing money unnecessarily time-consuming, complicated and misleading. To withdraw money, you need to send them a fax listing all your funds. It takes then 7 working days to "settle" your account, after which they will send ... Read review

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Fidelity is hot on research
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Maintaining and Managing-- Fidelity!!
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Advantages: tracks ftse uk index,low charges, spread risk , can be ISA'd
Disadvantages: covers all sectors, can miss out on sector over performance

If you have read the weekend business sections of the papers you maybe forgiven for thinking every fund manager is after your hard earned cash. Your right, although ISA investment inflows have increased this year with the boyant markets, they are still we ... Read review

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I'm not too bad with stuff like this....not great though either......lol, Really need to get my finances sorted out xxx by hewks

I dont really understand anything about stocks and shares, FTSE or DOW Jones or anythin, but this would be really helpful to someone that would be interested in that kinda stuff! Great review xx by lauricha

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Advantages: Capital growth
Disadvantages: none

This is an excellant long-term investment trust. All you need to do is look at the chart to see why ;) Steady higher highs and lows all the way ! Thats the best type of trend you can ask for ! Go to FT.com and enter BTEm and take a look at that char ... Read review

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I think you could have done with including a little more information for the higher ratings here. Take a look around at other people's reviews and you should see what I mean. Happy to re-rate if you add to this, just put a note in my guestbook to let me know when you're done. by crutchley_am

Hello and as below, welcome to Ciao. Would like to see a little more info on why it is such a good long term investment. What do they do that is so different from other investors. How can I aquire them and where are they based? gar by garleon

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Advantages: Less riskier then equities provides a secure regular income
Disadvantages: provides potenailly far less payback than equity

A bond is simply an IOU. It is an mutal agreement under which a sum is repaid to the investor at some future date. By ownership of a bond you are in turn borrowing money to the person (banks or governments usually) issuing the bond. These bonds commonly p ... Read review

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Not sure this is the correct category for this review as you don't discuss the Deutsche UK Bonds Plus Fund in any detail. Fionaxx by COOOEEE

As below.... by sandemp

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