The red line chart below is the financial sales person’s favourite chart about stock-market investing. Let’s see why it’s most likely NO use to you at all.
I realise that this message (that house prices will probably fall) will not be welcomed by a lot of homeowners – and I’m sorry about that. But this site is about education and, from time to time, the facts about asset prices (houses or shares) don’t make for easy reading. That said, I think younger…
So, the pressure is on, the Christmas preparations are in their final frenetic stage. Everyone (who’s going to) has, by now, offered you their hopes that you have a ‘good one’ . . . . . . and you know that, early in the new year, you’ll be asked to confirm that it was indeed…
Many advisers will tell you that ‘bonds’ are the ‘safer’ part of your investment portfolio. “Your bonds will protect your funds if the riskier part (your shares) crash in value” is what they say. But that’s only right some of the time. Read on to find out how safe bonds are now – with interest…
Okay, so who is the greatest educator of our time?
Buy to let ( BTL) property investing has long been seen by many people as the best way to invest for an income in old age. But is that right now? Let’s see what’s going on.
In this new series of Insights, we’re going to explore all the reasons why you might not want to plan your money. And we’ll find ways to help you overcome these blocks – by making this planning easy and fun when you’re ready to tackle it 😊
Officially (according to Christian religion) the Christmas season (aka Christmastide or Yuletide) runs for 12 days.
In this Insight, let’s look at the real problem with banking today This should give us some context on those simple but flawed theories that have got us into so much trouble up to now.
Some investment “experts” will tell you that there’s no point paying a fund manager to manage your money. You don’t need them to pick the shares, or sectors or countries to invest in, they say, All you need to do is buy the whole world stock market with some index tracking funds. So… are they…