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....
Risk
14 Mar If something seems too good to be true…
The recent collapse of a firm supposedly offering low risk investments which turned out to be the opposite affords the opportunity to consider some of the warning signs when faced with any apparently attractive investment proposition, particularly as these regularly apply to other schemes which...
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...