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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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There are over 5,000 finance related sites in the UK but the majority of online investors still have nowhere to go to find either a context for what they are doing, or the educational tools required to exploit the trading and investment opportunities now available to them.
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Content is provided by their team of experienced market practitioners, specialist finance writers and academics. It is dynamic, clear, and concise.
Tradebasics.com was set up in December 1999.
Features
Trade Basics has 3 main sections relating; Investing, Trading and Knowledge.
Investing
This section has information and tutorials on the following subjects:
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Asset Allocation
Portfolio Building
Stock Picking
Gurus and Systems
Buying, Holding and Selling
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Trading
This section has information and tutorials on the following subjects:
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A Game Plan
Technical Analysis 101
Trading Options
Futures
Spread Betting
Contracts For Difference (CFD)
Options Masterclass
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Knowledge
This section has information and tutorials on the following subjects:
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Know the Markets
Know Your Stocks
Know Your Bonds
Know Your Funds
Know Your Options
Know The News
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