23 Aug Stay with it
In order for any plan to be effective, it needs to be sufficiently realistic and detailed to meet their needs. It also requires commitment to stick with it, particularly when things are not going as expected....
Financial planning
09 Aug Investing is like going on holiday
Image from rawpixel.com at pixels.com I always look forward to August. Not because I’m going to be away (apart from a roasting long weekend in New York last year, we tend to do that in July) and not because of the weather (I was once snowed...
11 Jul It’s all in the price
The aggregate expectations of all market participants are always reflected in the prices of quoted assets. Only the flow of news about unexpected events causes these to be adjusted either up or down....
27 Jun Investing is not rocket science
Image from NASA Imagery via Pixabay There can’t be many professional investors whose name is familiar to a large number of people around the world. Perhaps the one whose name is cited most frequently is Warren Buffett, ‘The sage of Omaha’. Buffett’s early investing career as...
14 Jun The bloke in the pub
Image from Free-Photos on pixabay.com There are some subjects on which just about everyone has an opinion. Politics and sport come to mind immediately and the strongest opinions are often found among those whose experience of the particular field is limited to what they observe via...
30 May Hobby investors
Investing as a hobby is fine, as long as you don't need to rely on being good enough at it to feed yourself and your family in the future....
28 Mar Keeping market falls in perspective
The true meaning of wealth is having the appropriate level of assets that you require, when you require them, to meet your financial and lifestyle goals. In the interim, any movements in value are noise....
01 Mar New costs and charges information for investors
New EU regulations that came into force in 2018 will shortly give investors unprecedented information about the actual charges that they paid on their portfolio over the previous year....
15 Feb Decisions and outcomes
Don't confuse the decision with the outcome - good decisions can still result in bad outcomes and vice versa....
31 Jan Diversification – Can you have too much of a good thing?
Diversification has been described as ‘the only free lunch in investing’ in that it enables a portfolio’s returns to be enhanced without increasing its risk. However, it is possible to have too much of a good thing? Can a portfolio actually be too...
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