30 April 2009

Investment Funds no easy solution

Quite often investors realise the futility of trying to pick stocks and time their entry points. In that situation investment advisors tend to suggest that investors move their money into the supposedly simpler investment instrument of investment funds. But that this is no real solution is demonstrated by the fact that there is a confusing variety of such collective investment vehicles - in fact, the Financial Times for example lists more investment funds than individual shares!