Betting On Every Horse In A Race Isn’t A Strategy. It Shouldn’t Be For Your Portfolio Either.
28.07.23
From time to time a new client comes to me with an existing ISA or pension portfolio they want reviewing which is made up of many different funds, often a…
Surviving Existential Threats: Your Money Vs Conflicts, Contagions & Crashes.
13.07.23
Ever since humans have roamed the planet there have been risks to our survival. 200,000 years ago, if it wasn’t wild animals that had the potential to decimate our developing…
Tinkering With Your Portfolio Is Not Helping You
05.07.23
Claudio Ranieri is most famous in this country for guiding Leicester City to a shock Premier League title in 2016. Until then, he was remembered for managing Chelsea at the…
The Far Side of Boring
26.05.23
Our daughter is learning to read, which as a child can be boring, frustrating, and not much fun. Grasping phonics isn’t easy and to a 5-year-old letters and words are…
I Don’t Want My Money To Do Harm. How Can I Invest More Responsibly?
27.04.23
As the climate emergency continues, the chasm between the very rich and the very poor widens and the accountability standards we hold global organisations to increase, many of us are…
What is Risk?
14.04.23
In financial terms, ‘risk’ is not having enough money to achieve your life priorities. But it comes in different forms… Investment Risk Investment risk is what we most commonly associate…
If The World’s Greatest Investor Is Lucky How Can Anyone Else Do It Skilfully?
24.03.23
Warren Buffet is, in most people’s opinion, the greatest investor of all time. The 92-year-old is reportedly worth $108bn. His success has generated wealth for the shareholders of his company,…
Investing Is Not For Social Networks
10.03.23
An online trading platform provides the ability to follow other people’s portfolios and a social network to share ideas. Users of an internet forum managed to move the market on…
Context is Everything
10.02.23
When I was young I remember having a book of sketches that, at first glance, appeared to be random scribbles. The subject was only clear when the observer was told…
Things That Require Patience
12.01.23
Things that require patience: Learning a new skill, Parenthood, Gardening, Establishing and growing a business, Completing a 1,000-piece jigsaw, Learning a language, Losing weight, Stopping a bad habit, Writing a…
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