There is a thriving wine investment market, and some people manage to turn a reasonable profit by investing in quality wines at the right price, and buying and selling at the right time. But there’s one way you almost certainly won’t make a profit—and that’s by buying into a wine investment “opportunity” that is offered to [more...]
A boiler room scam is a fraud where you are sold shares in a company that either does not exist, or is a very high risk share which will invariably fail because they are overpriced, cannot be easily sold on and have little real value. It has international dimensions with perpetrators and victims in North [more...]
Ethical banking is a sector of the banking industry which takes ethical considerations into account when making business decisions. Sometimes it represents little more than a marketing catchphrase, but at the other end of the spectrum there are financial institutions whose entire reason for existence is to further a particular ethical goal. Ethical concerns may include [more...]
If you have some money to invest, the start of 2009 offers some relatively good opportunities. You’ll be paying considerably less to buy your stocks than someone who made the same purchase six months or a year ago. But how can you pick which stocks to buy? When times are good, many kinds of investments can [more...]