A great many business and marketing consultants have fallen in love with Simon Sinek and his book, ‘Start with why’… but not everyone is that keen on Sinek’s ideas, and here’s why!
If you’re looking for some smarter investment ideas you’re in the right place.
In this extract from chapter 5 of my book ‘Who misleads you about money?’ I explore the story of Tony Dye to help you understand why most fund and wealth managers will always take bigger risks with your money than you might reasonably expect. Dye was the chief investment officer at Philips and Drew when…
We’ve already seen how most people fail on most of their personal goals and explored seven ways to help you achieve more of yours. Here, I just want to share one of the most powerful ideas I’ve ever found for getting more done.
What does financial freedom mean to you? Why would you want to learn to plan it for yourself?
Are you open to thought experiments and new ideas? What if this idea could save you, or earn you, several thousands of pounds? Well, if like the sound of that, read on, because this one’s for you.
Working inside the Financial Services industry for 25 years, and observing it from the outside for another ten, I guess I’ve seen a lot of what goes on. I know what good (and fair priced) financial products, and financial advisers, look like, and many of those advisers are really good at their job. However, they’re…
In this second of three Insights to help thirty and forty-somethings plan their money, we briefly explore the question of who you can trust for help. I say briefly because there’s enough in this question to write a very good book 😉
Watch the video above to learn why you can’t rely on the newspapers for guidance about money.
Benoit Mandelbrot had a beautiful mind for risk. A Polish-born, French and American mathematician – he was the guy who discovered the idea of “self-similarity” in nature. You may have heard the term ‘Fractal’ which he coined to describe the beautiful and ‘apparently complex’ shapes in nature. This extraordinary simple concept explains how snowflakes are…