CFD – Contract for Difference (contract based on price difference), which allows you to trade assets and make a profit without physically buying the underlying asset.
How to trade CFDs on the stock market
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How To Grow Your Retirement Savings Safely
Retirement is a time for enjoying life. You can take trips that you always wanted to take or stay home with the kids after school is out. However, this is only possible if you have retirement savings. Many people don’t know exactly how their retirement savings are growing until it’s too late. Don’t wait till it’s too late. Here are safe ways to grow your retirement savings.
4 Types of Bonds You Need to Know About
The construction industry is a huge business, and there are countless construction companies, small and large, making deals on projects every day around the world. Construction contracts can be too complicated, and with such huge amounts of money, resources, and workforce involved, both the rewards and risks of construction are enormous. In order to mitigate the risks between construction companies, customers, and contractors, surety bonds are often used to protect the interests of all parties.
The Year Nothing Worked: Stocks, Bonds, Cash Go Nowhere
Lu Wang
December 28, 2015 — 12:00 AM ESTUpdated on December 28, 2015 — 10:32 AM EST
It’s the worst year for asset allocation funds since 1937
A 2.2% gain in the S&P 500 is roughly the best anyone could do
The idea behind asset allocation is simple: when one market struggles, it’s OK because an investor can jump into another that is thriving. Not so in 2015.
In fact, if you judge the past year by which U.S. investment class generated the largest return, a case can be made it was the worst for asset-allocating bulls in almost 80 years, according to data compiled by Bianco Research LLC and Bloomberg. With three days left in 2015, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index gained 2.2 percent with dividends, cash is up less, while bonds and commodities show losses.
After embracing everything from Treasuries to high-yield bonds and technology shares amid seven years of zero-percent interest rates, investors found themselves with nowhere to run at a time when the Federal Reserve’s campaign of stimulus drew to an end. Normally it isn’t like this. Since 1995, practically every year has seen some asset deliver returns exceeding 10 percent.
“It’s been challenging from the point of view that the equity market and bond market are probably more joined at the hip than normal,” said Hayes Miller, the Boston-based head of multi-asset North America who helps oversee $35.8 billion for Baring Asset Management LLC. “We’ve had high cash exposure relative to norm because we felt cash provides one of the only good diversifiers against the risk-off trade.”
Bianco Research keeps track of the S&P 500, 30-year U.S. Treasury bonds, 3-month Treasury bills and the Thomson Reuters/CoreCommodity CRB Commodity Index to gauge performance in stocks, bonds, cash and commodities. The four are the most common asset classes considered by investors when an allocation strategy is designed, according to Jim Bianco, the founder.
