In association with <strong>Costa</strong> Cálida International Radio and www.angloINFO.com Investing is like Playing Golf! Okay, I can see you all looking with a furrowed brow, but when you think of it, especially those of you that play golf, you will see that there is a correlation between the two. That correlation is called RISK & REWARD. You, the golfer, are standing on the Par 4 where a well-hit drive puts you within a wedge of the green and a possible birdie that could win you the match. However, you have to drive over the lake and that is the risk, but the reward is that wedge to the green. Your other option is to lay up and take a long iron to the small green and hope it holds. This is the lower risk option, but without the certain birdie chance; so a lower reward, but safer. As golfers know, most holes have a certain risk and reward options; some we take on Exciting new novel released by local Author Due for release on August 1st is a long awaited new novel from author Quentin Cope. Quentin Cope was born in to a nearly bankrupt,struggling post war Britain in 1946 and spent a generallymiserable youth amongst the beautiful rolling hills and dry stone walls of rural Oxfordshire. He swapped mediocrity and an unacceptable education for a life of absolute adventure by joining Her Majesty’s Royal Air Force as a boy of fi fteen. He never looked back. After serving time on 58Sqdn Photo Reconnais- Page 10 and others we don’t. There are golfers that will not take any on and prefer to be ‘safe’ and come in on around their handicap. Investors are like that too. Some will take a certain amount of risk; others want safety fi rst and want to limit any potential loss to the bare minimum for a smaller reward. They are the RISK & REWARD options. You – the investor - have £100,000 to invest and you want as much growth as possible. To get this, you need to take some RISKS but the REWARDS are there if it goes the way you want. The other way is to use the “lay up” golf option where you go for safety fi rst and maybe a lower reward for the lower risk, but where the possibility of losing your capital is lowered or even negated. A professional golfer has his caddy that advises him on club selection, indicates to him where to hit the shot and warns him of the dangers in front of him; the wind direction, strength of that wind etc. etc. The amateur golfer doesn’t have that luxury and has to decide, select and choose on his own and he lives and dies by his own sword, although he can, of course, employ a caddy. You, the potential investor do have the luxury of a “caddy” in as much as you have an IFA who can sance, playing about with Canberra PR9 spy planes, Quentin decided he needed to travel. He left the Air Force and working for a major UK Telecommunications company, voyaged extensively to strange places, working on strange projects for even stranger governments. In 1973, he travelled to Dubai, a place on a map literally no one had heard of, blessed with a few tarmac roads, several mosques, infrequent electricity and even less frequent water supplies. For the next 25 years he became part of that hard living, hard drinking, frontier brigade that enabled a startlingly beautiful and completely self contained glass city to rise out of the parched and unforgiving desert; a place that is now the home of multi millionaires, some elements of mysteriously deposed royalty and a good scattering of International scam merchants. Using his own aeroplane, Quentin travelled extensively throughout the Arabian Gulf and used Dubai as a base to see much of the Indian Sub-Continent, East Africa and the Far East. He now leads a much more settled life at a more sedate pace, in Spain where the weather is often good and the people regularly generous, inspiring him to write full time. Quentin now lives at Camposol, near Mazarrón. steer you in the right direction, one that can advise on products and make suggestions to suit your needs. You can, of course, do this on your own, but then you live and die by your own sword! A caddy to the golfer is a real asset in going around the golf course, very much like an IFA is to the investor in the investment arena. We can see and hopefully understand that golf and investing have the same characteristics in a small way. They both have risks and rewards and they both have help and assistance available to help you soothe your way around the golf course or through the investment maze. We, at AES, are caddies in the fi nancial arena and as such, we look at all types of investments that would suit each individual and like a golfer, no individual is the same or have the same needs or outlook. Each has their own Risk & Reward criteria and it is up to us, the IFA (caddy) to make sure that those criteria are met and catered for. For further information or advice on investments (or if you fancy a round of golf!) please contact me by phone on 968 978 188 or by email at stephen.higgins@aesfi nance.com ‘The UnicornConspiracy’ is a fast paced, gripping work of fi ction built around real events leading up to a very genuine fear of World War Three erupting on October 6 th 1973, when the fi rst Egyptian and Syrian tank tracks made their surprisingly confi dent, initial impressions on Israeli soil. The Yom Kippur War, as the confl ict was eventually named, brought East and West to the brink of nuclear annihilation, but was there some cruel plan behind this unwinnable adventure? Maybe, within the pages of this superbly written novel, one can speculate that the answer to such a question would be…Yes! This 450 page paperback is available on Amazon as is the Kindle E-Book version. For those who wish to meet the author, Quentin will be attending book signings at the following venues. The Teapot, Puerto de Mazarrón on Friday <strong>September</strong> 14 th from 12-2pm TJ’s Bar, Camposol B on Sunday <strong>September</strong> 30 th from 3-5pm www.quentincope.co.uk Please tell our customers where you saw their advertisement in the <strong>Costa</strong> Cálida <strong>Chronicle</strong> To place an advertisement with us please see page 4 or contact Teresa 619 199 407 www.costacalidachronicle.com email: costacalidachronicle@gmail.com
Please tell our customers where you saw their advertisement in the <strong>Costa</strong> Cálida <strong>Chronicle</strong> To place an advertisement with us please see page 4 or contact Teresa 619 199 407 www.costacalidachronicle.com email: costacalidachronicle@gmail.com Page 11 In association with <strong>Costa</strong> Cálida International Radio and www.angloINFO.com