Well, I’ve managed to survive another Christmas silly season where I managed to disregard most of the lessons in good decision making that I’ve taken care to explain in a series of blogs over the past year. The first ever…
It seems both I and the Financial Stability Board have made new resolutions, albeit a bit late in the year. In my case the resolution is quite a simple one – when leaving your car at the garage to have…
I apologise again for the length of these last two posts, but these will soon be eligible ISA investments and advice is unregulated at present. In due course, I’ll produce a more comprehensive guide – if you are interested just…
This is the first of two posts that are going to be long on detail and short on humour, but the subject matter is important and I don’t think it’s been covered very well for retail investors unless you happen…
I was going to write about peer-to-peer loans this week, but instead I am going to concentrate on another new type of investment that offers high headline rates of interest. They are known as CoCos and this week the Financial…
Most of the posts in this series have been aimed at making you more informed about investment in general. And I take a rather different approach than just putting some charts and tables in front of you that all contain…
In the first of these two blog posts, I highlighted how good and bad economic events are much more likely than you might expect. And this is partly due to the way the economic world is wired. There is a…
This is the first of two blogs that will show you why it is a small world after all. The world and its economy is far more connected that you might imagine. And while that does have some negative consequences,…
If I said to you the word ‘Vix’, chances are you would be thinking that I was talking about ‘Vaporub’. However, in this case I am referring to one way in which we measure how ‘fearful’ financial markets are. Not…
On a trip to the coast a fortnight ago, I went inside a café to order a couple of ice-cream cones. Ahead of me in the queue was a father, who was looking a little stressed. He was waiting for…