David Stevenson
Welcome to the Adventurous Investor
We think the financial world is changing...fast.That phenomenal, global change is making the investor's life increasingly difficult.
Major stock-markets are increasingly moving in alignment with each other - when Wall Street crashes, so does everyone else.
That increasing correlation between markets is making life very difficult for investors. Are you truly benefiting from diversification by dabbling in the UK or European markets?
Are the BRIC markets really that alternative ?
What constitutes 'alternative' in these globally connected times ?
Cue The Adventurous Investor. This site is based on the writings of the Financial Time's own Adventurous Investor, David Stevenson. Its dedicated to one simple idea - providing useful, free content to investors looking to find something a 'little different' from the ordinary, run of the mill, US main market equity fund.
On this site you'll find a mountain of free, unbiased comment, opinion and facts about the growing 'alternative investment universe'. That means we love to talk about specialised closed end funds listed in the UK or the US as well as ETFs and structured products deliberately targeted at the more discerning 'smart' investor.
You'll find information about hedge funds and listed structured products, about weird and wonderful investment trusts and strange assets no mainstream investor has heard of......
But most of all you'll find loads of information about Frontier Markets - one of the most exciting spaces in the modern investment universe. We're talking next generation emerging markets that are more likely to be visited by Indiana Jones rather than your friendly local mutual fund manager. They're risky - but not insanely so - and they're exciting but countries like Cambodia and Mongolia (not to forget the UAE or even Zimbabwe) are a compelling investment idea.......if you know what to look for......
What to expect....
There are a number of key components to this web site.....
- The Blog - just go to the news section and you'll find the regularly updated comment section from David Stevenson, The Adventurous Investor.
- Frontier Markets - the low down on all the weird and wonderful stock-markets from around the world we find strangely compelling ! Country profiles, context articles, useful documents and much, much more....
- Tracker Plus Products.....we use this title to describe the growing universe of listed structured products sold to smart investors on the UK exchange. We think there are some compelling funds out there but you need to understand the product and the way its structured.....
- Alternative Assets...everything from radio masts to land...catch up on the regular Financial Times columns.....
