Last week’s column about safeguarding your savings and investments has resulted in a number of letters and e-mails from readers interested in some of the suggestions recommended by Eddie Hobbs, Vincent Digby and Mark O’Byrne.
The level of interest in these quite sophisticated investments is a huge development and very welcome.
For many years, investors bought expensive mixed managed funds or the endowment mortgage version that produced very poor returns or, at the other end of the investment spectrum, invested solely in Irish shares, and mainly bank shares.
