Paul Tucci, an
amateur investor for over thirty years who also wrote The Handy Personal Finance Answer Book (2011), not only understands these complexities, but he also explains them in everyday language.
"The recent success of the Sports Trading Club is a clear example of how the
amateur investor can prosper and out perform any hedge fund," Mr Robin said.
The speaker described Parmi's situation for him in a nutshell, as an
amateur investor who had been seduced by the package rather than seeking out a top quality education from property professionals.
But unlike in years past, when such sales would usually transfer a property from one
amateur investor to the next, Knakal indicated that institutional investors have now stepped in to become prominent buyers of the small office properties, apartment buildings and warehouses that used to be the exclusive province of small-time real estate owners.
"The
amateur investor tends to opt for a repayment mortgage, viewing their investment more for long-term capital growth," added David.
There is an old adage that the crowd is always wrong, which can just as appropriately be applied to those who earn their living at the business of investment as it can to the
amateur investor.
For the
amateur investor who wants to keep the risk level as low as possible, while trying to get capital growth, it is more cost effective and more prudent to use a collective investment such as a Unit Trust, or Investment Bond.
Entrants from ten regions are competing in the first phase of InvestaQuest, a competition to find Britain's best
amateur investor run by the London Stock Exchange and Barclays Stockbrokers, the largest execution-only broker.
Q I AM a keen
amateur investor and have been building up my own small portfolio of stocks and shares which I hold in PEPs.
Investors have been choosing their competition portfolios with the help of the free online portfolio monitoring tools offered on the website supporting InvestaQuest, the competition to find Britain's best
amateur investor.
Q I am a keen
amateur investor, and have been building up my own holding of stocks and shares in PEPs.
Most of these are trying to attempt to capture the imagination of the
amateur investor.
