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Imagine just for a moment that you have €100,000 of spare cash lying around at home and you would like to invest it. What should you do with your money? You decide to take it to your bank, but you get a big surprise.

Maynard, my pet parrot, has been behaving very strangely this past week. If I didn't know him better, I would say he is in love. But there is more to it than that: he believes he has discovered that parrots are better investors than humans.

Hedge funds were one of the fastest growing areas of financial investment until the recent financial crisis. But what exactly are these funds? Find out in part 18 of our Economics for Amateurs (EFA) series.

This week, I received the yearly notification about a life insurance policy that I took out via my employer some years ago. A close look shows that the company expects me to live for another 30.5 years. Nice to know — I'll start planning my life.

In the first of our new weekly series: Economics for Amateurs (EFA), in which we explain important economic concepts, we ask a simple question: is it good or bad when stocks go up? And the answer is — get used to this one — it depends.

Every stock market crash comes to an end at some point. But it is almost impossible to know when this point has been reached and it is thus safe to start buying shares again. While you are waiting, here are ten products that will be bought in this crisis.