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…
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What is Risk?
14.04.23
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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…
Using The Football World Cup & A Betting Exchange To Explain Stock Markets
18.12.22
“When the facts change, I change my opinion, what do you do Sir?” John Maynard Keynes The World Cup has just reached its conclusion with Argentina claiming their third World…
Will Living Costs Come Down?
16.09.22
I was asked this question during a recent review meeting with a client. The point being that we are living in a period of high inflation but once that reverts…
Why Has My Cautious Investment Lost Value?
09.09.22
Risk-averse investors seek low-risk, cautiously invested portfolios for a reason; they don’t want to experience the periodic tumult of stock markets. Preferring instead to give up the gains for the…
EBI Earth Portfolios Ltd vs Vanguard Lifestyle Strategies
22.07.22
As a financial planner advising clients on the investment of their ISA, pensions and General Investment Accounts it is incumbent upon me that I review the ongoing suitability of any…