ADVICE & COMMENT
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Opportunities out of Africa no longer out of reach
New investment platforms are allowing adventurous types to back early-stage businesses in frontier markets
Stop panicking and trying to play the macro game
Short-term myopia – powered by fear and panic – is likely to produce its own destructive legacy, in low returns and high trading costs
Avoid the value traps hidden in the greenery
Is Low Carbon Accelerator an undervalued green-tech fund – or have I just put my foot in it?
From Russia, with risk
I’m normally cynical about investments in Russia and commodities, but a couple of contrarian ideas have caught my attention
Go east, young man – holding foreign currency, not dollars
Investing in a basket of Asian currencies via bonds doesn’t look like the daftest way of accessing the emerging-market growth story
More awards for FT Money reporters
Josephine Cumbo and Alice Ross win at the Biba and AIC awards
A business funding challenge close to home
How many of you have encountered problems with a mortgage lender if you are in business, rather than in receipt of an employee’s payslip?
The Investor Dashboard: July 2011
This is a snapshot of risk-based measures for key markets, designed to make private investors’ lives easier
Think of a number, as long as it’s bigger than 5
The right individual retail bond might make sense for a private investor looking to invest in a well known brand or organisation with a safe income and the right duration
Buy the bonds that you know – from supermarkets and councils
I think there are opportunities in funding large brands and organisations that want to build connections with customers and the local community