Cherry Reynard is a financial journalist. She's written for a range of publications including the Financial Times, The Telegraph, The Independent and Forbes. Cherry co-authored a book on investing in emerging markets and is a six-time winner of the Investment Management Association’s freelance journalist of the year award.
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Passive investing, a strategy where the investor tries to replicate an index (like the FTSE 100), is popular because it's cheap and pretty simple. With interest rates low, could this work for you?
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