Posts Tagged ‘Fake News’

Why financial planning is not common sense

And why that’s a good thing!

21st November 2023

Mencken. Clear, simple and wrong. Paul Claireaux

Why financial planning is not common sense

And why that’s a good thing!

21st November 2023

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A 10 to 15-minute read – depending on your speed. Most of us look for common-sense answers to various questions in life. In this Insight, we’ll explore why that is often a bad idea, particularly when it comes to money. Common-sense answers to common and simple questions are helpful. But with complex questions (like making…

Change three words you use each day

and transform your life for the better

8th June 2022

Change three words to transform your life

Change three words you use each day

and transform your life for the better

8th June 2022

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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…

The pen is mightier than the sword

unless you use it to tell lies

4th March 2022

Tell the truth. Long Nose. Paul Claireaux

The pen is mightier than the sword

unless you use it to tell lies

4th March 2022

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This blog offers advice to leaders of Investment Fund and Wealth Management firms, but investors might find it useful also.

How should you split the bar bill?

well, don't do it this way!

14th February 2022

How not to pay the bar bill. Paul Claireaux

How should you split the bar bill?

well, don't do it this way!

14th February 2022

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In this classic funny story, we learn the limits of Socialism.

Two Nobel prize winners

with very different ideas on stock market pricing

10th December 2021

Two Nobel prize winners

with very different ideas on stock market pricing

10th December 2021

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Some wealth managers promote their investment service as being robust because it’s based on the ideas of a Nobel Prize-winning economist. The trouble is, they don’t tell you about the other Nobel Prize winner of the same year, who had very different ‘herding’ ideas about what drives prices in stock markets. In this Insight, I…

How to test your investment adviser

Before it's too late

19th October 2020

Mencken. Clear, Simple & Wrong. Paul Claireaux

How to test your investment adviser

Before it's too late

19th October 2020

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This Insight will equip you to test your investment adviser about your expected investment returns. If you think this is useful guidance and you want to help me stop the spread of misleading information from parts of the multi-trillion pound (dollar) investment industry, then please share:-)

The Price is Right is a game show

Not a reliable guide to the stock-market

18th October 2020

The Price is Right is a game show

Not a reliable guide to the stock-market

18th October 2020

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If you’ve only ever heard the theory of investing that says, ‘the price is always right’… then you’ve only heard half the story. And that can be dangerous at times like this.

Let’s hear it for the quiet folk

after all, they tend to add the most value

15th October 2020

Let’s hear it for the quiet folk

after all, they tend to add the most value

15th October 2020

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I came to the conclusion, many years ago, that we should listen harder to quiet folk. And here I’d like to explain why.

12 things to consider before you make a big change in direction

in your career, or your business.

12th October 2020

12 things to consider before you make a big change in direction

in your career, or your business.

12th October 2020

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If you plan to continue working for several years, but you’re thinking about a big change in direction, this Insight is for you.

How to write a strong news story

but why reading those stories can mislead you

19th October 2019

How to write a strong news story

but why reading those stories can mislead you

19th October 2019

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What makes for a strong news story? In this Insight, I’ll share what a media trainer told me about that. I’ll also offer my own views on how the ‘strong news’ approach creates misleading and potentially harmful stories about money, investing and pensions and what you can do about it.

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Posts Tagged ‘Fake News’

And why that’s a good thing!

And why that’s a good thing!

and transform your life for the better

and transform your life for the better

unless you use it to tell lies

unless you use it to tell lies

well, don't do it this way!

well, don't do it this way!

with very different ideas on stock market pricing

with very different ideas on stock market pricing

Before it's too late

Before it's too late

Not a reliable guide to the stock-market

Not a reliable guide to the stock-market

after all, they tend to add the most value

after all, they tend to add the most value

in your career, or your business.

in your career, or your business.

but why reading those stories can mislead you

but why reading those stories can mislead you

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