Inflation Risk on Your Savings Money and Investment

Savings and investments that often expose the investor to inflation risk usually fall into the ‘safe’ category. For example, private investors tend to think of building society certificate deposit accounts as risk free. If the intention is to avoid the loss of the original capital then, provided we stick with the well-regulated UK building societies and other deposit takers (including Internet accounts), money on deposit should certainly be safe from capital loss. (more…)