Wine and investing
Just like making wine, investing effectively is a process with many stages and subject to external influences that we cannot control. Both require attention to seemingly small details in order to produce the optimum results....
Just like making wine, investing effectively is a process with many stages and subject to external influences that we cannot control. Both require attention to seemingly small details in order to produce the optimum results....
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....
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...
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....
Don't confuse the decision with the outcome - good decisions can still result in bad outcomes and vice versa....
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...
European regulator focuses attention on the costs of investing...
If you need a regular cashflow from your portfolio, it is worth considering more than just the income it produces as a way to provide it....
If you don't need to beat the market to achieve your goals, it may not be worth trying...