Week 2 round-up

We’ve covered plenty of ground this week, examining the array of principal assets that you can invest in, including savings accounts, shares, bonds and commodities.

We’ve also looked at the costs of investing and the impact of taxation on investment returns.

We must now turn to the factors that you should consider when building up your investment portfolio. To avoid investing either foolishly or irrationally, you need to have a strategy and that strategy must be informed by the key principles of investment management. That is what we turn to next week.