One of the main excuses people give for not often investing is they simply don’t have the money. As a result, the latest edition of Trustnet Magazine finds out how much you could have made by giving up little luxuries such as smoking and drinking and investing the money you would have saved into tobacco and beverage stocks instead. With Oasis recently celebrating the 22nd anniversary of their hit single Cigarettes and Alcohol, editor Anthony Luzio thought it would be fun to use Liam Gallagher’s estimated intake of both guilty pleasures since this time as the base case for the amount of money to be invested.
Elsewhere, Adam Lewis digests the impact of Donald Trump’s victory in the US election on emerging markets, Cherry Reynard finds out where investors are being compensated for taking risk and Daniel Lanyon weighs up the benefits of using long/short strategies in your portfolio.
In the magazine’s regular features, John Blowers makes sense of changes to the state pension, Threadneedle’s Richard Colwell highlights three stocks that are back on track after appearing to lose their way and Sarasin & Partners’ Jamie Fletcher reveals how he is delivering returns that are uncorrelated to equity markets.
As always, Trustnet Magazine is completely free – simply click here to start reading or here to download the PDF.