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About the AAA Investment Guide
The AAA Investment Guide is crammed with facts and information for investors and savers. Good knowledge is essential for successful and profitable management of your investments.
The Guide is in two parts: Part 1 is an informative guide to financial planning with emphasis on keeping your tax bill down and seeking the best investment advice. Part 2 has detailed information on 130 ways to invest and is listed in the frame on the left of this page.
The Financial Times wrote on 31 March: "From the standpoint of basic, clearly written information on a variety of investing topics, AAA Investment Guide is hard to beat."
Part 1
Part 1 explains your investment and savings strategy and how your tax rate determines the type of investment you need to consider. But tax is not everything. Almost as important is the length of time you wish to hold your investments. That depends on what you eventually want to do with the money you have invested. You need to makde some decisions yourself and you may need to seek investment advice.
Part 1's Contents are as follows:
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Your Investment and Savings Strategy
Best Investment Advice and How To Get It
Keeping Down Your Tax Bill
How Different Types of Investments Are Taxed
Capital Gains Tax and Inheritance Tax
Spread Your Money Around
Turning Income into Capital
How Best to Invest in Stocks and Shares
Living and Working Abroad
Saving Towards a Pension
Wives' Income and Investments
Children's Investments
Giving Money to Adult Children
Change in Plan
Boosting Your Retirement Income
Investment Summary
Unclaimed Assets Register
Useful Web Addresses
How Much Interest
Subscriber Pages
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Part 2
Part 2 lists 130 Ways to Invest. The important points of each investment are detailed on its individual page. Where you see an entry denoted with the symbol or * ; this means that the investment is the best value of its type. Most such investments have some UK tax concession associated with them. All tax rules and advice relate to UK residents.

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About Investors Chronicle Online
Week-by-week Investors Chronicle builds up into an investment bible of facts, figures and informed comment on companies. Every company worth more than £30m-£40m is guaranteed comment twice a year - with the release of full-year and half-year financial results. Every company worth under £30m-£40m falls under the scrutiny of their market-leading smaller companies team. And their US and European sections look at investing beyond the UK.
Their Funds & Finance team applies the Investors Chronicle's brand of unbiased, concise analysis to tax, investment trusts, unit trusts and investment strategy.
Online, they have plugged in key services to make Investors Chronicle even more valuable.
Their portfolio tool allows you to custom-build your investment records.
Their savings and funds pages link to powerful search and analysis tools.
A stockbrokers' directory, based on Investors Chronicle research, helps you choose the right broker.
Investment clubs gain their own section, dedicated to making investing together as effective as possible.
Where did Investors Chronicle start? Investors Chronicle's history is one of survival through the market's ups and downs - it has weathered more than a century of financial and social change.
It traces its roots back to 1860 and the launch of the weekly Money Market Review. In 1914 it merged with the Investors Chronicle and Journal of Finance, started in the 1890s. Brendan Bracken, the key figure behind the modern Financial Times, took over publication of the magazine in 1928.
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