At 68 I'll only use cash ISAs - I'm not willing to gamble with investing

At 68 I'll only use cash ISAs - I'm not willing to gamble with investing

Keith Gaterall invested once, more than a decade ago. At 68, he says he won’t be doing it again. When his father passed away in 2010, he put his inheritance in stocks and shares. “I got given loads of fabulous figures on what it could make and the amount I might end up with,” he says. Seven years later, he got a return that worked out at around 3.5 per cent per year yet – “I would have beaten it with cash”, he says. His calculation is likely to …