What's your investment approach?

What is your Investment Approach?

We all know that there is a huge amount of financial news and opinion published every day, making it difficult to work out what is relevant to you and the way you invest. That is why we have introduced Investment ViewPoint and its unique signposting system.

Periodically we also publish our more in-depth Investment ViewPoint:Analysis which takes a look at particular themes, suggesting trading strategies and products to complement your investment approach. Recent topics have included Emerging Markets, Fixed Income, Oil and Gold.  
 

You can access Investment ViewPoint here   

For your easy reference, all previous Investment ViewPoint articles are archived on our website, allowing you to quickly and easily check back on what we have said about issues previously and see how our comments may be relevant to your investment strategy.  

Signposting system

Filtering what information is relevant to you can be difficult, and that is where the Investment ViewPoint signposting system can help.

We have defined three main broad groups of investor:  

• Cautious – If turbulent markets give you sleepless nights and you prefer the returns from your investments to be smooth and stable, then you are probably a cautious investor.
• Moderate – If wild swings in the value of your portfolio make you a little uncomfortable, but you can tolerate some stock market movement in the short term in return for potentially longer-term gains, you are likely to be a moderate investor.
• Opportunistic – If you relish stock market movement in equity and other investment markets, viewing this as an opportunity to profit from regular movements in asset prices, you are likely to be an opportunistic investor and will have an appetite for a broad range of investment products.

 
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To each of these groups we have allocated a coloured ‘abacus’:
Cautious investors will be denoted by a yellow abacus.
Moderate investors will be denoted by an amber abacus.
Opportunistic investors will be denoted by a red abacus.

Each Investment ViewPoint article will be accompanied by these three abacuses in different formations. So for instance, where an article is relevant to only opportunistic investors , this will be denoted by the red abacus being shown larger than the other two.  

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The expertise and knowledge demonstrated in these articles should hopefully assist you to broaden your investment horizons. Please note that our Investment ViewPoints are the views of Barclays Stockbrokers and should not be relied upon to inform your investment decisions. 

Kind Regards 

Barbara-Ann King