Hints and tips:
...The fund, Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, or Breit, was forced to limit investor withdrawals to avoid a painful fire sale of assets to meet the flurry redemption requests....
...Remember, insurance company default fund performance is highly variable....
...“Just hoping for the best with a pension fund your employer provided you” was never going to be enough....
...Kate Barker: You should have defined some of the above variables better!...
...Gold also pays no income, so it becomes less attractive as interest rates rise....
...Most investors can more easily access gilts (and fixed-income more widely) via funds, tracking a basket of gilts or leaving selection to professionals....
...Otherwise, there is the TB Guinness Global Energy Fund, which is all about old energy, or if you want to hedge your energy bets a little look at the BlackRock Energy and Resources Income Trust, which is...
...The trusts have a couple of special features that make this possible. First, unlike open-ended funds, they do not have to pay out all the income they get from the companies they invest in as dividends....
...It seems the FM threw a paddy on hearing his fund might be sold and stopped cooperating entirely....
...Those funds are typically diversified, composed of holdings in other mutual funds....
...But these three funds now face a new competitor: a retail-orientated unit trust fund called Gravis Capital Partners (GCP) Infrastructure....
...Its distribution yield [an estimate of the income the fund expects to pay over the next year] currently stands at a staggering 7.1 per cent, although this is variable and is not guaranteed.”...
...He is also the fund manager of the UK-listed TEMIT fund and the US-registered Templeton Developing Markets Trust....
...into a diversified fund....
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