Insights

Should you pay for financial advice?

Lost in front of map. Paul Claireaux

Should you pay for financial advice?

If you’re considering working with a financial coach, planner, or adviser and are concerned about the potential cost, this Insight is for you. This is a 10 to 20-minute read, depending on your speed. Yes, it’s quite a long read, but we believe everyone needs to understand the (various) answers to this question. After all,…

20 ideas to help your teenagers achieve more

20 ideas for teenagers

20 ideas to help your teenagers achieve more

In this Insight, I’d like to share some ideas to help teenagers achieve more as they prepare for adult life. These are ideas I shared with my own, now adult, boys, some years ago.

How to build an awesome financial plan.

Seven Steps. Paul Claireaux

How to build an awesome financial plan.

A 10 to 20-minute read, depending on your speed. The shocking thing is that almost no one knows how to design a financial life plan. Yet, there’s a widely agreed-upon (and life-changing) approach to this challenge that can help you regardless of where you live, your age, or your level of wealth. So, in this…

Four more ways to choose good boxes for your money.

FILTRATE Checklist. Points 5 to 8. Paul Claireaux

Four more ways to choose good boxes for your money.

A 6 to 12-minute read – depending on your speed This is the last of four Insights on how to choose the right boxes for your money. Here, we’ll complete our eight-point FILTRATE checklist – and so, equip you to assess any financial product (or strategy) that anyone could ever put to you.

The first two factors to consider when investing.

The first two factors to consider when investing. Paul Claireaux

The first two factors to consider when investing.

A 5 to 10-minute read, depending on your speed In this second (of three) Insights, you’ll learn about the first two of four factors to consider when deciding what level of investment risk to take – on each of your financial life goals. These Insights are written to help all (new, recent and experienced) investors…

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

Lone Elephant. Paul Claireaux

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

A 10 to 20-minute read, depending on your speed. This is the second of two Insights for anyone who struggles to talk about (and deal with) personal money matters. And that’s most of us at times! Here, we’ll explore another five (of ten) reasons we might find it hard to talk about money, whether with…