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About Bloomberg
Bloomberg L.P. is an information services, news and media company serving customers around the world. Headquartered in New York, they employ 8000 people in over 100 offices worldwide.
Bloomberg has forged a unique position within the financial services industry with the Bloomberg Professionalservice, which provides an unparalleled combination of data, analytics, electronic trading and straight-through processing tools in a single platform. By providing instantaneous access to real-time historical financial data and the ability to act on it Bloomberg transformed the securities business and leveled the playing field between buyers and sellers. Their clients include the world's central banks, investment institutions, commercial banks, government offices and agencies, corporations and news organizations.
In addition to the Bloomberg Professional service, Bloomberg has grown to include global news, television, radio, Internet, and magazine and book publishing operations. Bloomberg News was founded in 1990 as a financial news wire service and has grown to include 1200 reporters in 85 bureaus worldwide. Bloomberg Television, a 24-hour business and financial news network, is produced and distributed globally in seven different languages. Bloomberg Radio is syndicated through more than 700 affiliates worldwide and gives listeners up-to-the minute business, national and international news. Bloomberg's 24-hour flagship station is Bloomberg WBBR 1130 in New York.
The company publishes four magazines in the U.S. for consumers and professionals. Bloomberg Personal Finance is targeted to active individual investors; Bloomberg Wealth Manager is published for money managers and advisers; Bloomberg Markets is a business magazine for investment professionals and complements the Bloomberg Professional service. On Investing is a personal investment magazine produced exclusively for Charles Schwab's top-tier clients. Bloomberg also publishes, in conjunction with local partners, Bloomberg Money in the U.K. and Bloomberg Investimenti in Italy.
Bloomberg's Web site, Bloomberg.com, is among the top five most visited sites in the U.S. for financial news and information.
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Bloomsberg offers many services on their site, including:
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Online Bloomberg television
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Financial Sites > AAA Investment Guide
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.
