Personal Finance is an option module for students studying Accounting and Finance. This document covers: relationship between risk and return, tax effective ways of investing, dimensions of investing, attitudes to risk, components of risk factor, investment pyramid, shares, share prices, measuring ...
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Module: Personal Finance
Lecture 8 – Investments
We will go through all the different types of investments that exist.
Property can be an investment. You can invest property through trading.
Learning Outcome
Range of investments available
Relationship between risk and return
Benefits of collect investments
Tax effective ways of investing
World Stock Markets Comparison
We are now much more global in our investing
The US had the bulk of the market in 2017
The world stock market has shifted in their focus
Chart 2: Industry weightings in the USA and UK, 1900 compared with 2017
You need to keep track of market news so that you know where to invest your
money
The digital currency has done really well. Initially nobody believed in it. Now
it’s been used in place of money.
UK Returns from equities, bonds and bills
Bonds are very secure and are much more long term
Equity has done really well – people are actively investing in it.
The higher the risk, the higher the return.
Dimensions of investing
Cost of investment
Return on that investment
Risk you are faced with
Attitudes to risk
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