Your money is then invested like other pension plans, in stocks and shares, bonds and cash savings accounts.
But investors then found wine far more profitable than sluggish stocks and shares and parked their money in grapes.
The investment company Alliance Trust is increasing its annual management charge for customers who use it to open a stocks and shares Isa.
Kuek is down-to-earth and his language is peppered with terms from his day job -- selling stocks and shares for an investment bank.
Half of this can be saved in a cash Isa, with the rest or the total amount able to go into a stocks and shares Isa.
In 2010, the last year for which full statistics are available, there were nearly 24 million ISA holders altogether, of whom nearly 3.8 million held stocks and shares Isas.
As the name suggests, the Junior ISA works in a very similar way to the adult ISA: there are two versions, so-called cash or stocks and shares Junior ISAs.
Yet what is the Apple story today was the AOL story before and is a drama that has played out back into the dim history of stocks and shares.
With yields on investments in stocks and shares at historically low levels "there is a well of money looking for a better return than currently available in the market, " he said.
This contribution can be divided between cash and stocks and shares Junior ISAs in any proportion, but only one cash and one stocks and shares Junior ISA can be held per child.
Investors can open one cash Isa and one stocks and shares Isa each year and various providers are offering different options for those aged 50 and over to top up their existing Isas.
They are less likely to own stocks and shares than Americans, even though some are assiduous savers against a rainy day (three-quarters of all French household financial assets are free from capital risk).
The largest selling, UBS says, has come in consumer discretionary stocks and utility shares.
Over the past year, value stocks and growth shares moved in tandem.
The Shanghai Composite finished 1.7% lower at 2147.96, its lowest level since March 2009, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index ended the day up 0.2% at 19121.34, as the poor performance of commodity and transportation stocks was offset by shares in local conglomerates and gaming stocks.
There has also been modest buying of financial stocks and information technology shares.
Mutual funds, then known as investment trusts, could invest in portfolios of stocks and sell their shares to investors.
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Leading the gains were health care and financial stocks, while telecommunications and technology shares weighed on the downside.
Other big sellers included Fidelity Disciplined Equity, which invests in both growth and value stocks and sold more than 444, 000 shares, or 47% of its stake, and Fidelity Dividend Growth, which sold more than 167, 000 shares, or 25% of its stake.
At the same time, they were shorting stocks and futures - selling borrowed shares and index contracts which they could buy back more cheaply.
An analysis of the effect of hurricanes on a sample of retail, energy, home building and insurance stocks shows that shares within those industries have behaved in line with the traditional strategies that were again apparent by today's market action.
And therefore theoretically you can sell more shares than exist and compound stocks into oblivion.
And I doubt they were accumulating shares of stocks such as Apple ( AAPL) and Amazon.com ( AMZN).
Very closely, that is, until the middle of 2011, when the combined effects of the Japanese earthquake, Greek debt and Euro credit crises pummeled shares, chasing investors out of stocks and sending share prices swooning.
In a sign that the market pessimism seems concentrated on Japan, the most-recent selloff appeared to be contained to Tokyo stocks, as shares in other Asian markets fell only slightly and stocks were higher in Europe.
Cramer likes stocks that have strong market shares and earnings growth potential when the economy shows signs of picking up, which is nothing new to standard value investors.
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As markets plunge, stock gurus buy up shares of stocks like Merck and Dynegy.
Investors favored defensive stocks in the consumer staples sector, and bank shares on hopes the central bank will cut interest rates at its policy meeting next month.
As I noted in a post last week, Citigroup a week ago picked up coverage of an assortment of solar stocks, and set a Buy rating on SunPower shares.
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