The concept of "insuring" and protecting your money in the stock market is misunderstood and not familiar to most people who trade and invest in the stock market.

These protection strategies allow you to both protect and profit from a decrease in the value of your shares.

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Financing small businesses : recommendations for action
What are the best ways of improving the flow of finance to small firms ?

The European Commission, the Member States and finance professionals have recently looked at ways that promise to improve the situation of many SMEs.

This summary presents the key conclusions of five reports that have reviewed both loan and equity finance and complements the conclusions on seed investment that were published in March 2007.