With a recession on the way and ultra low interest rates , along with funds taking a passive index approach, partnering with a proprietary t

Basset and Gold is a collection of innovative people from a diverse background base looking to disrupt the stagnant finance industry. The company was set up by finance industry experts from hedge fund, private debt, financial regulation, corporate banking and FX backgrounds. Its mission is to create investment opportunities that are easy to understand, transparent and that continuously control risk while maintaining market-leading returns. Basset and Gold provides financing t

With the lock-down still in force, we’re having to do home schooling for the children, so I decided to incorporate what I do with what I think they need to know. I introduced them to the “Rule of 72”. For those of you unfamiliar with this Rule, it is a cheat sheet to work out how many X’s (years, months or days) it would take to double your money. So in the unlikely event your Bank is going to give you an interest rate of 8% p.a on your savings it would take 9 years before yo

In the Airborne we had a saying: "Knowledge Dispels Fear." Nigeria. What do you really know?

““Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Donald Trump 45th President of the USA “Where there is muck, there is Brass” Yorkshire saying The two sayings represent the divide upon which the superpowers and the West view the richest continent in the World. China has adapted the second view while many in the West have taken and sympathise with the former. For most Westerners when one thinks of Africa the images of Wild animals the big game, starving

Vera Lynn : I am forever Blowing Bubbles On the 26th of November the Financial Conduct Authority issued a public statement in regards to the marketing of Mini Bonds. There is to be a temporary ban on the sale of them to retail investors. This because it is felt that retail investors are unaware of the risks involved. Many of the bonds issued are promoted as “asset backed” a new-fangled phrase for virtually “risk-free”. Of course asset backed relies on many factors in terms of

Regulator to impose temporary ban on mini-bond sales to retail investors next year amid concerns over the promotion of these high risk and hard-to-understand products. The City regulator has banned the sale of mini-bonds in the wake of a number of a scandals that have cost investors millions in the past few years. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has intervened to temporarily stop the promotion of mini-bonds to most retail investors for the whole of 2020. Usually, the FC

BASSET & Gold has scaled back its UK operations and is reassessing its focus in the wake of the collapse of London Capital & Finance. The firm, which issues mini-bonds that finance UK lending platforms and direct loans, has told Peer2Peer Finance News that it is reassessing its target audience and geographical priorities, which has led to a scaling back of its UK team. Former executive director and relationship manager Daniel Smith has left the company and has been replaced o

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