Your investment objectives will reflect many personal preferences, such as whether you want to maximise income or capital growth, your degree of risk tolerance and whether you favour socially responsible investments.
But, whatever your priorities, it is essential to maintain a well balanced portfolio spread over a range of different asset classes.
It is also important to select your investment funds carefully, and this does not simply mean opting for the flavour of the month. Any fund manager can get lucky in the short term, but far fewer have managed to produce consistent long-term results.Last Updated
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Investment planning
Investment planning
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01: Introduction
The value of your investments - and the income from them - can fluctuate and it is possible that you might not get back a significant amount of your investment. Past performance is not a guide to future performance and may not be repeated.
