Professional Investment Tools

A website which features a revolutionary chartbook, providing thousands of charts on bond, currency and stock markets round the world, empowers private investors to manage their own investments and pension funds. These charts show not only what factors moved markets in the past but also include a 'best guess' as to which way individual markets will move next.

The site, www.investors-routemap.co.uk, provides a free online study course on investing in global markets. Its subscription section contains analysis and advice on the markets of 50 countries and regions round the world, giving unambiguous and objective computer-generated opinions on all of them.

This is presented in various ranking tables, country profiles, timelines of key events and over 4000 charts covering up to 25 years of market performance. Subscribers can access a menu-driven system to select tables or build user-defined charts based on a variety of parameters.

The system is designed to allow investors to compare past performance and current outlook across all markets on a standardized basis using a variety of investment strategies which include econometric modeling, monetary policy, analysis of seasonal trading patterns, chart-reading tools and valuation ratios

To supplement the automated on-line service, additional personalized e-mail and telephone services will be available to subscribers in the United Kingdom and abroad, subject to foreign regulatory constraints.

The product is designed to offer increasing levels of sophistication so it not only meets the demands of the professional, but the straightforward needs of the private investor as well.

"The concept developed from my personal needs in managing my own investments", says Nick Dewhirst, the founder of the company. "After 25 years in the City advising fund managers on foreign markets, I saw the need for a sophisticated yet user-friendly strategy product to equip the increasing numbers of private investors, like myself, who want to take control of their own financial future. That is why it is a chartbook, rather than a series of erudite essays."

Investors RouteMap eliminate conflicts of interest among suppliers of financial services by unbundling advisory and dealing services. It complements the growth in execution-only stock-broking, no load funds and money purchase personal pensions. Here private investors can combine the knowledge of the professionals with their own comparative advantage of flexibility.

The bubble in technology shares makes the search for other worldwide investment opportunities particularly timely.

Copyright © 1999 Professional Investment Tools Ltd., authorised by the Financial Services Authority. Independent Financial Adviser (UK) and member of Investorside Research Association (US). Please read Financial Health Warning and Licence Agreement. UK laws apply exclusively. Principal sources: Consensus Economics, Corel Corp., FIBV, Global Financial Data, PIT, national governments and stock exchanges. Information and opinions are based on sources believed to be reliable and accurate. However PIT does not guarantee this to be the case, and does not accept liability for any loss arising. This is for information only and does not constitute a solicitation to deal in any securities. Opinions are liable to change. Past performance is no guarantee of future success. Last modified: April 29, 2004.