Tulip Mania – The Greater Fool Theory
If you think that market crashes are a modern thing caused by pandemics, tensions between countries or financial industry misdeeds? Think...
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- Jun 17, 2020
- 4 min
Want to Give Your Family Nightmares? Don’t Leave a Will
Every day, people give their families nightmares by not getting their financial affairs in order before they die. Many do not even make a...
- May 19, 2020
- 4 min
If an Airline goes Bankrupt, What Will Happen to your Vouchers, Air-Miles or Airline Credit Card?
With warnings of airline bankruptcies, consumers may lose those cancelled tickets ... ... The financial future looks anything but...
- Mar 17, 2020
- 3 min
You May Want to Panic, You may Want to Cash Out - But Here’s What you Need to Remember ...
It's a difficult time for all investors. Very few of us would have come out unscathed from the recent dramatic drop in share prices. The...
- Mar 17, 2020
- 3 min
Robots Tested Positive for Coronavirus!!!!
Market sell-offs used to be caused by people phoning their stockbrokers and telling them to sell. These days, a widespread fall in share...
- Feb 19, 2020
- 4 min
Will COVID-19 Make your Investments Sick?
The outbreak of a new coronavirus (now named COVID-19), originating in Wuhan, China has so far taken 1,774 lives, and some 70,500 have...
- Feb 19, 2020
- 5 min
7 Signs You Are Living Beyond Your Means
Even after nearly 30 years in financial planning, I am occasionally taken by surprise by somebody who tells me ‘I can’t save anything, I...
- Jan 22, 2020
- 5 min
Almost Everything Wall Street Expects in 2020
For the professional prophets and market gurus of Wall Street and beyond, “The double-digit returns of 2019 will be hard to repeat” is a...
- Jan 22, 2020
- 4 min
USD – The Global Reserve Currency... For Now!
In 1945, the United States became the first, and so far, the only country to drop nuclear bombs on an enemy. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were...
- Dec 4, 2019
- 3 min
Is Market-Timing A Viable Investment Strategy?
The likelihood of successfully calling market tops and market bottoms consistently is so remote that the odds are essentially zero. Plan...
- Dec 4, 2019
- 4 min
State Pension Payout Claims – Is the Headline the Reality?
As expats, many of us are planning our own retirement income using investments and savings, but also relying on our home country’s state...
- Nov 6, 2019
- 7 min
Ready to Invest in Cannabis? – Or is the Grass Greener Somewhere Else?
The rapidly developing legal cannabis industry has become much talked-about investment trend in the last few years. Investment writers...
- Jul 17, 2019
- 6 min
Building The New PayPal
Whether you are or are not into crypto currencies, the chances are that your social media timeline and traditional media newsfeed has...
- Jun 18, 2019
- 4 min
Why You Should Stay Invested, Even During Uncertain Times
Look beyond the current global ‘noise’ and understand why you should continue to keep your money working for you in the markets. You...
- Apr 28, 2019
- 5 min
ETFs- A safe way to invest?
Well Maybe! - Let's see if it's worth smashing the piggy bank open for... We have seen investors’ enthusiasm for cheaper, passive ways to...
- Mar 19, 2019
- 2 min
Zombie Funds Will Leave You For Dead
A recent report by Morningstar, the fund-rating agency, explained that there were (in 2017) some 194 UK-domiciled ‘Zombie funds’, each...
- Jan 26, 2019
- 3 min
The Tax Man And The Ex-Wife...
Staying on good terms with your ex-wife might just be beneficial when it comes to dealing with the tax man. Informants get paid by the...