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Deciding investment objectives

The first section of this book featured explanations of the key features of investment trusts, whilst the second introduced perspectives both when comparing trusts and considering insights from experts. But how should investors put theory into practice? What are the factors to be considered when first investing? What is the best route to market? And how should a portfolio be constructed and managed?

The next seven chapters under this section will address the starting blocks when commencing an investment journey, the various principles and nuances of investment and portfolio construction, and will finish with a real portfolio by way of example and a few recent market commentaries. But first, the starting point ...

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