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Martin is a Fellow of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland; holds a degree in Economics and Germanic Studies from Trinity College in Dublin; and has worked as an Equity Fund Manager with responsibility for over USD 1.5 billion.

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Personal Finance > Stock Market How to protect yourself from the Bernard Madoffs of the world: Ponzi schemes revealed: 1 of 19

The young often see previous generations as being less sophisticated. Indeed every 20 years a new generation seems to forget the lessons of the past. The economist John Kenneth Galbraith said just that, in an interview on the1929 Stockmarket Crash. The victims are waiting and all they need is an unsc...
Personal Finance > Investing (Other) Investing in gold and silver as opposed to other investments: 1 of 11

Gold as an Investment The Egyptian Pharaohs thought they could bring it into the next life with them. The Spanish conquered South America in search of the place called El Dorado where it awaited them and speculators in their thousands flocked to the Klondike in 1896 to find it. Even James Bond's arch- enemy was obsessed with...
Politics, News & Issues > Political & Economic Theory World financial crisis: 1 of 10

As one philosopher wisely put it, history teaches only that we never learn anything from history. It is only nine years since the Tech Bubble burst and yet the world finds itself suffering from the collapse of commodity, credit and property bubbles of massive proportions and is now facing the severest economic downturn since...
Personal Finance > Stock Market How to make money in the stock market: 1 of 10

As a work colleague of mine used to say: "Making money from investing is easy. You just have to have the assets which are rising". Now maybe Andy could read the charts better than most of us, but I doubt that his stock portfolio rose much since the markets peaked in October 2007. The problem remains that stocks rise and fall...
Religion & Spirituality > New Age Concepts Book reviews: The Secret, by Rhonda Byrnes: 1 of 9

A few years ago I heard somebody somewhere talking about how you could order the universe to give you what you want. I told a friend, who was having a difficult time in her life, to order the universe to get her the job she had applied for. Anyway she got the job and her life has come on leaps and bounds since then. I forgot...
Personal Finance > Stock Market Key psychological factors in stock market success: 1 of 8

Do you believe that stocks are perfectly priced and include all information available? This belief is known as the Efficient Markets Theory. Yet why then do stock prices move with such incredible volatility, if we know everything. The stock that rose last month, will more than likely fall this month and next m...
Personal Finance > Stock Market Subprime lending crisis: Are bank shares a buy?: 1 of 8

NEVER CATCH A FALLING KNIFE! This old stock market adage is as apt today as it ever was. World Banking stocks are already down over 22% this year and we have returned to level we were at in March 2008, when the Federal Reserve had to the rescue Bear Stearns to avoid a financial meltdown. So Bank share prices are now lower th...
Religion & Spirituality > Pagan & Earth-Based Religions Pagan festivals in the US: 1 of 6

PAGAN FESTIVALS IN THE US Many of the immigrants coming to America over the last 500 years brought with them a history of Pagan traditions, although they may have been unaware of such. Some of these traditions were written out of history by the Christian churches and Roman colonization. However, in some cases Christianity ad...
Personal Finance > Mutual Funds Mutual funds: What is fund style: 1 of 6

A Mutual Fund's style should inform the retail investors about what type of mutual fund product they have bought. This is also useful for the portfolio managers, as they can choose to specialize in particulars segment of the stock market, so that the manager becomes an expert in that niche area. Furthermore, ...
Personal Finance > Stock Market How to profit from falling stock prices: 1 of 6

Stocks prices rise and fall all the time. How can we make money, irrespective of which way the market moves? Ideally this means having the stocks while they are rising and having a methodology to deal with the stocks when they are falling. This article concentrates on two types of investor: The Long Only Investor and The Sho...