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Learn to Trade - Investment Seminars from Successful Personal Investing in 2011.

Successful Personal Investing (SPI) has been teaching people how to make investment choices for themselves for over 20 years. SPI will show you, step by step, how to invest to make money on your own terms, how to find money to invest, how to maximise your investment returns and keep more of it for yourself and not the Taxman, how to minimize your investment risk, and all in your own time. You will learn all of the different investing opportunities, how to compare them, and how to make the right investment choice for you.

Learn how to invest money in shares, invest in the stock market; it is the complete beginners guide to investing.

Successful Personal Investing is sent to you for you to read and digest at home. And it is sent to you on approval, so you get to read before you buy, and you only keep what is suitable for you, and naturally you only pay for what you want to keep.

Successful Personal Investing is continually maintained to be right up to date, so in times of market turbulance you can be sure we are moving with it, unlike those tomes filling the shelves of your local book store.

Successful Personal Investing is supplied without obligation, and you have our guarantee that you will only pay for what you want, and can stop whenever it suits you, no questions asked.

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The “rich man’s” Personality Profile Test

So take this simple test.
Please answer the following questions. Be honest. Don’t try to give the “right” answer...you would just be fooling yourself.

First, are you naturally competitive? When you play games, for example, do you play to win, or just to pass the time?
Do you feel it is your personal responsibility to take care of your family – financially?
Do you have a deep internal desire to become wealthier?
Is this desire strong enough that you are willing to devote 15 minutes per day to realise it?
Are you capable of managing your financial affairs in a disciplined, organised way?

If you have answered "no" to more than one of these questions, then I thank you for reading this far...but I don’t think there is any point in reading further. Twenty years of experience tell me that this offer will probably not help you.
On the other hand, if you have answered yes to at least 4 of these questions...I do have something very important to tell you:
I believe I can help you become substantially wealthier than you are now.
You have Permission to become a millionaire!

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Still Sceptical?

“Isn’t it a bad time to be investing in shares?”

You’ll see for yourself that SPI is about much more than just investing in the stock market. We’ll show you how to withstand stormy conditions, and how to find an opportunity – whatever the market is doing, guided by experts in their fields such as Peter Oppenheimer, Jeff Parr, Brian Tora and Douglas Moffitt.

“I like what SPI offers, but I haven’t got a lot of spare time.”

Of course you haven’t. Who has these days? That’s why, right from the beginning, the programme was designed to enable the average person to become financially successful in no more than 2-3 hours per month.

“It sounds too good to be true.”

That’s an understandable initial reaction. After all, the results you can achieve with SPI are remarkable. But this is why we don’t ask you to take our word for it. That’s why you can review every single lesson in your home for 10 days. No obligation.

“I’m not convinced this course is necessary.”

You’re absolutely right. It’s not; provided you’re already wealthy. For most though, it’s invaluable. It’s about being smarter with what you’ve already got.

Frequently Asked of Us

Q1. What is SPI?

A. SPI is a home-study course of 38 investing lessons, covering all areas of Personal Finance and Investment from Unit Trusts and Direct Investment in Shares, to Property, Tax Strategy and Investment in Art, Antiques and Collectibles. Each of the lessons is self - contained but together they make up a complete education in investment and money management. The early lessons are designed to introduce you to simple and practical investment basics. Later on in the course, you’ll learn about sophisticated techniques which many financial professionals know little about.

Q2. How often are they sent out?

A. Two lessons are sent out every 3-4 weeks on 10 days approval. You can ask us to set this period to suit your own convenience.

Q3. How long to complete the course?

A. The course is very flexible. To some extent you control how long it will take. Two lessons are sent to you every 3-4 weeks, that’s 19 deliveries altogether. Some people take the whole course in a year, spending a couple of hours a week reading it, whilst others go more slowly. A few people go part of the way through, stop for a while and then come back to SPI later when it’s convenient.

Q4. How much does it cost?

A. Each lesson currently costs £14.75 including delivery to your door.

Q5. How do I pay?

A. Every despatch comes with an invoice. You can pay by BACS, cheque, credit or debit card or continuous authority to your card. The choice is yours. But remember, you NEVER pay in advance.

Q6. Can I cancel any time?

A. Yes, you can. You are not obliged to complete this course. Just take what suits you best. You may cancel at any time. Just notify us in writing or call the Customer Services Team.

Q7. Can I suspend my account?

A. If you go away on holiday or an extended trip, you can suspend for a month or two. You can either inform us to continue automatically after a given date or we will write to you and ask if you are ready to continue.

Q8. Can you give me any advice?

A. SPI is an educational product, so it is not regulated under the Financial Services Act. Therefore we cannot answer specific investment questions or give personal tax advice. But we are happy to answer any questions relating to material contained in the course as well as the general application of the principles.

Q9. Can I have only lesson 1 free?

A. Unfortunately, we are unable to supply a free copy of the first Lesson only as they are despatched in pairs. However, as you are under no obligation to keep Lesson 2, and still have the opportunity to review it. Why not enrol on the course and see for yourself?

Q10. Can I buy in bulk or individual lesson ?

A. Yes. however, there is no approval facility, and payment would be required in advance. There is a discount for taking the course all at once. Please call our Customer Service Team for more information and a list of the lessons covered in the course.

Q11. Can you send me the list of the titles?

A. Yes we can send a Course Contents leaflet which briefly outlines the 38 lessons covered in the course.

Q12. Can I change the order in which lessons are sent?

A. Yes, we can change the order for you if you want to receive a specific pair of lessons that appear later on the course. Please telephone our Customer Service Team for their assistance.

Q13. If I wish to return one lesson and pay for the other, what do I need to do?

A. Just amend the invoice/statement deducting the returned items off the total and post together to us.

Q14. What should I do if they are not suitable ?

A. The lessons are sent to you on 10 days’ free approval. If they are not relevant to you, just return them to us within the 10 days. Please mark the invoice "Returned", and your account will be credited.

Q15. Can you send the lessons aboard?

A.The difficulty with sending lessons abroad, is that they are written to apply solely to the investment situation in the UK and may therefore not to be useful to people living in other countries except perhaps for British expatriates. The other factor is the possible delays in delivery which may overlap the payment date. We operate a two despatch credit which means that any delay may create a brought forward balance on your next despatch of lessons. We are able to offer the lessons on a manual basis. There would be no approval and payment would be required in advance. Please call our Customer Service Team for more information.

Q16. Is it expensive compared with the other books?

A. We have looked at the market in alternative products and we find that while some of the information contained in SPI can be gleaned from newspapers and magazines, the information they provide is patchy and nowhere near as comprehensive as we can provide. Books also exist, but they have a number of disadvantages They are usually confined to one subject, such as unit trusts, whereas we cover the whole range of personal investment. They are not always well written - we edit the work our experts produce in order to give our readers material which is interesting and readable. They tend to be out of date because it takes several months to produce a book and it may have been lying on the bookshop’s shelves for considerably longer, whereas our product is continually updated as you go along. The lessons will have been reviewed within the past three months or so for accuracy. If you were in fact to buy all the books and periodicals required covering the same range as we do, you would in fact have spent far more than the cost of the complete course. Other courses may be more specific, and are very often much more expensive than SPI.

Q17. I have returned 2 despatches but why have I not received any more?

A. Your account has been cancelled automatically because we have received two consecutive despatches. The reason for this is that we must have a pre-determined point at which we interpret returned lessons as an indication that the client is not interested and no longer wishes to continue with the course. (Not everyone notifies us of their wish to cancel.)

Q18. Can you send lessons more slowly because I don’t have time to read?

A. We are able to increase the delivery period up to a maximum of 6 weeks between despatched. Please telephone our Customer Service Team for assistance.

Q19. How can I re-start again at a later date?

A. Please provide details of your Account No. and which lessons you last received and we should be able to continue from where you left off. You may be given a new Account No.

Q20. Can't I find all this on the internet?

A. Yes, You might find something. But can you be sure it's current? There is so much legacy content that you often have to plough through hours of material, and you still might not know that it is correct. SPI is always up to date.

Q21. I saw SPI on Ebay. Is it worth me buying that?

There are a couple of things you might want to consider before you buy a second hand course.

1. It will be out-of-date. One of the key features of SPI and the reason it is sold in parts is that it is completely up to date when we ship it. I have seen some offered with elements that have not been published for 6 or 7 years.

2. In buying from an auction, you will be committing to pay for something unseen. SPI is sent out to you for your review, new and up-to-date, before you pay a single penny.

3. In joining SPI you have the option to pay for only those Lessons in the course that you wish to keep.

4. IRS keeps the SPI course updated for you, at reduced rates, via the SPI Update Service.

5. With IRS, there are no Direct Debits, Standing orders or card payments to be made in advance, that can be cancelled after the approval period or trial, or ‘refunded’ within 3 months. That is what Free Trial really means, not hoping that you’ll forget to cancel the mandatory payment, or have to go back and argue about getting a refund because you were one day late.

Q22. What about just buying a book instead?

We would never suggest that there was not value in a book. However, it takes a long while to get a book to the bookstore. And you as the purchaser don’t generally know how long has it been there. Many of them, whilst offering useful insight, are out of date before they were even printed.

With SPI on the other hand, each Lesson is printed for you, from the very latest revision.

SPI is also written to be clear, concise and jargon free. It is also free of any commercial influence through sponsorship or endorsement. It is completely independent and unbiased.

So when you make a comparison, SPI really wins hands down every time.