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New to investing

Investing is one of the most effective ways of increasing wealth over the long term. It involves carefully selecting assets with the aim of growing your money to reach your investment goals. Contributing to financial security and providing more flexible lifestyle choices, investing is an important discipline that should be started as early as possible.

In the current inflationary environment, investing has become even more important. Many workers are set to retire on lower incomes than those of previous generations and the default investment alternative of keeping money in the bank risks eroding the value of cash savings.

In the long run, it’s not just how much money you make that will determine your future prosperity. It’s how much of that money you put to work by saving it and investing it.
Peter Lynch
Investor, mutual fund manager,
and philanthropist

Articles

Investment goals

Setting financial goals for investors allows them to focus on decisions that will contribute to their overall objectives, rather than monitoring the outcomes for a range of individual investments. Just like goal setting in life, it can help individuals focus their behaviour and remain motivated.

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Asset classes explained

Groupings of investments that have similar financial characteristics, each asset class carries its own set of risks and rewards. Investors’ investment goals, like their personal circumstances, differ and so asset class weightings vary.

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Understanding risk

For investors, risk represents the chance that a particular outcome or financial gain differs from its expected return, however, it’s important to recognise that risk is an inherent part of investing and that there are different types of financial risk.

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What is a fund

A fund is a type of investment that enables multiple investors to collectively purchase securities, whilst retaining ownership and control of their shares. Similar to a listed company, a fund is owned collectively by its shareholders, with an investment objective and policy dictating what the fund manager purchases.

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The importance of diversification

From year to year, it is difficult to predict which asset classes will be the best performers. Most investment specialists agree about the benefits of spreading your money across different investments. This diversification can reduce volatility, smooth out highs and lows in returns and help avoid unnecessary risk.

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Why invest globally?

Only investing locally means missing out on opportunities offered by global markets. Better diversification, more investment options and reduced volatility are among some of the reasons investors should consider investing globally.

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Savings vs multi-asset

Both savings accounts and multi asset funds can offer benefits for investors. Over the long term, investing and saving can complement one another and potentially help towards achieving financial goals.

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Why multi-manager investing?

Instead of focusing on just one type of investment, multi-manager funds invest in lots of other single-focus funds. This can allow investors to choose a single fund that diversifies investments and combines the talents of many fund managers all in one.

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Starter Guide
to investing

When you’re new to investing, getting started can seem like an uphill struggle. That’s why we decided to create a starter pack to help demystify the process and provide an introduction to the basics.

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Our latest insights

Access a range of articles, podcasts, videos and useful materials from our expert team at AXA IM Select and our leading, global fund group partners. You will find information on a variety of topics such as financial markets, multi-manager investing, macroeconomics, responsible investing and ESG and themes such as megatrends to help keep you up to speed on the latest news and views.

US equities - reinforcing the TINA trade

Article | Investments | 19/11/2024

US equity markets have consistently outperformed other asset classes over more than a decade. The strength of the world’s largest economy, and the strong growth of corporate America, could hold the key to this outperformance.

Panel Podcast - US election: rhetoric becomes...

Article | Podcasts | 13/11/2024

Donald Trump and the Republican party have achieved an emphatic victory in the US elections. In the weeks beforehand, the ‘Trump trade’ had been gathering momentum in financial markets, boosting the dollar and Treasury bond yields.

Monthly Review - October 2024

Article | Investments | 04/11/2024

The US presidential election race is still too close to call. China rolled out further stimulus packages, more measures expected. Founder Elon Musk dreams big for Tesla, with future AI plans.



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