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How to choose the right boxes for your money.

Introducing a checklist you'll never forget

Never forget this checklist. Paul Claireaux

How to choose the right boxes for your money.

Introducing a checklist you'll never forget

A 6 to 12 -minute read – depending on your speed. This is the second of four Insights on how to choose the right boxes for your money. In this series, we’ll equip you with an eight-point checklist for assessing any financial product (or strategy) that anyone could ever put to you. And we believe…

Thinking about choosing boxes for your money?

Let's be clear, you don't start here!

Sagan. Keep an open mind. Paul Claireaux

Thinking about choosing boxes for your money?

Let's be clear, you don't start here!

A 10 to 20-minute read – depending on your speed This is the first of four Insights on how to choose the right boxes for your money. In this series, we’ll equip you with an eight-point checklist for assessing any financial product (or strategy) that anyone could ever put to you. And this checklist will…

Who might be happy after a stock market crash?

and who might be seriously upset?

Who might be happy after a stock market crash?

and who might be seriously upset?

A 10 to 15-minute read – depending on your speed. By the end of this Insight (for investors of all ages), you’ll understand more than most people about this critically important paradox of investing. In short, you’ll know why stock market crashes can (simultaneously) be good news for some people and miserable for others! We…

Five (more) reasons we don’t talk about money

and how to overcome these blocks

Lone Elephant. Paul Claireaux

Five (more) reasons we don’t talk about money

and how to overcome these blocks

This (5 to 10-minute read) is the second of two Insights for anyone who struggles to talk about (and deal with) personal money matters. And, let’s be honest, that’s most of us from time to time! Here, we’ll explore another five (of ten) reasons we might find it hard to talk about money, whether with…

Should you pay for financial advice?

And if so, what is a reasonable price?

Lost in front of map. Paul Claireaux

Should you pay for financial advice?

And if so, what is a reasonable price?

If you’re thinking about working with a financial coach, planner or adviser, or you already receive such a service and you’re concerned about the price, this Insight is for you. This is a 10 to 20-minute read, depending on your speed. Yes, that’s quite a long read, but we believe everyone needs to understand the…

Do you really need a coach?

and are they worth paying for?

Hemingway. Most people never listen. Paul Claireaux

Do you really need a coach?

and are they worth paying for?

I love that quote, don’t you? How many people do you know who really listen to you? And how many of those are able to give you informed feedback; Insights, Ideas and tools you can use ?

Change three words you use each day

and transform your life for the better

Change three words to transform your life

Change three words you use each day

and transform your life for the better

During these extraordinary times, it’s easy to feel pressured (by others or ourselves) to do more of those things that we think we ‘should’ be doing. But that way of thinking doesn’t really help us to ‘achieve more’ at the best of times and it certainly won’t help now. So, let’s explore a different (and…

What is the true cost of a pension?

and why might it be LESS than 'some' experts tell you?

Cappuccino Pension. Paul Claireaux

What is the true cost of a pension?

and why might it be LESS than 'some' experts tell you?

So what is the true cost of a pension? It sounds like a simple question doesn’t it? But it’s seemingly impossible for some financial journalists to get to the bottom of it – as I summarised in this video So, let’s see how the Press and others might, inadvertently, mislead us about pensions, and if this might…

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