2 Reasons Why People Don’t Take Enough Investment Risk (& Why It Might Be A Problem)
07.08.19
Investment risk and reward are inextricably linked; if you want to have the potential for higher returns you have to accept increased investment risk. It was ever thus and it…
How to Finance A Car Purchase
20.06.19
Having come to the end of a lease agreement, my wife and I have recently been in the market for a new car. We spent a lot of time deliberating…
An Emoji Guide to Active vs Passive Investing
11.06.19
This latest Emoji Guide looks at active vs passive investing and comes at a time that one of the UK’s star fund managers has hit the headlines for the wrong…
Choose Life (A Financial Planner’s Version)
05.06.19
Choose life. Choose freedom. Choose leisure. Choose pleasure Choose never having to worry about money. Choose global travel, time in the garden or writing that book. Choose working on your…
Capacity for Loss – Or How Much Can You Afford to Lose?
30.05.19
Over the past few weeks, there has been a debate on Twitter amongst a small section of the financial planning community and compliance consultants on the surprisingly thorny issue of…
An Emoji Guide to Budgeting
09.05.19
Do you ever have that feeling that you should be making better financial decisions with your money but never have enough of it left at the end of the month…
How Not To Compare Your Pensions
29.04.19
If you have worked for a number of different organisations throughout your career it is likely you have accumulated a number of different pension funds. All of which will have…
“30 Years?! What Am I Supposed To Do With That?”
24.04.19
I was watching Trainspotting 2 the other day (if you were a fan of Danny Boyle’s first film from 1996 you’ll enjoy the sequel) and in it, Ewan McGregor’s character,…
An Emoji Guide to Capitalism
03.04.19
Capitalism hasn’t enjoyed the greatest press in the last decade or so; the near destruction of the economic system at the height of the Credit Crunch (or Great Financial Crash…
“Now the Kids Are Gone We’ve Got Some Spare Money, What Should We Do With it?”
13.03.19
There comes a time in every parent’s life when the kids fly the nest (sure, they sometimes come back!) and you’ll reach that point when you find the rooms echo…
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