MSE News: Investment fund sectors to be renamed 28 February 2011 at 3:38PM in Savings & investments 2 replies 1.2K views

Former_MSE_Guy

This is the discussion thread for the following MSE News Story:

"Funds will no longer be labelled as 'cautious' or 'balanced' as consumers find the terms confusing ..."

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Investment fund sectors to be renamed

FATBALLZ

Good move I think, when it comes to finances the use of subjective words like 'defensive' should be avoided, actually just saying what the fund consists of makes more sense.

Asheron

WHY don't the banksters also change the words 'Quantitative Easing' to PRINTING MONEY OUT OF THIN AIR ?

or

Teach finance in schools ?

They use all these fancy words nobody understands on purpose, they want the general public to have little or no understanding other than to save in a bank.