Investing

At Nutmeg we believe in holding a well-diversified, global, portfolio of investments. But holding global assets comes with a downside: currency risk. Currencies are often not appreciated as a source of risk by private investors, but currency movements can have a very pronounced and lasting impact on your returns – and that impact can be good or bad.

Nutmeg has recently added US mortgage backed securities to customer portfolios for the first time.

In the current low interest rate environment, many investors have looked to income strategies to maintain or increase the returns on their portfolios.

How much market volatility is normal? As an investor, it’s natural to feel a sense of worry when you see the value of your portfolio falling, but is it all part of the life of an investor?

Passive investment strategies, including exchange-traded funds (ETFs), typically aim to replicate the performance of a given benchmark (or set of assets). However, in some cases, passive ETFs may outperform the markets they track.

History has taught us that, in investments, liquidity is always king. That’s why the sudden rush out of commercial property shouldn’t come as a surprise.

We’ll be publishing regular updates to this blog as the economic story unfolds after the Brexit vote.

One of the few certainties in investing is that you will encounter market downturns. There’s no hard and fast investment rulebook, but here are a few basics to help you deal with them.

An independent report by respected financial consultancy The Lang Cat reveals the true cost of investing. The data also identifies some of the best – and worst – providers when it comes to the fees you are likely to pay on your stocks and shares ISAs and other investment products.

Buy to let property has long been a popular investment – but is it worth it? We check out all the facts.

The discipline of investing – and there’s a lot of discipline involved – conjures many metaphors. Some liken it to baking a cake or making bread because you combine the right investment ingredients under the right conditions to grow a successful portfolio. Others compare it to a rollercoaster ride, where the investor feels the ups and downs of market movements, or the ebb and flow of the tide. When I think about investing, I think about running.

There’s lots of noise in the media at the moment about the recent market correction – but what is a correction? And is it something you should be worried about?