25 Sep Wealth & Financial Planning for women - collaboration not condescension
Désolé monsieur, but women tend to live longer than men...
25 Aug Can’t buy me love (but happiness? Yes!)
“The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.” – Robert Louis Stevenson An interesting study was published recently, which found that spending money to buy time makes us happier. The study was carried out amongst adults in the...
11 Aug Books I read in...July 2017
July was the month for autobiographies. I’m fascinated by other peoples’ lives and how they got to where they are and even after this month’s binge I still have a stack of autobiographies and biographies waiting to be read. Here’s a selection of my best reads...
04 Aug The weekend starts here…04/08/2017
Up on the blog this week: Keep it simple, build and maintain a legible investment portfolio and avoid ‘coupon clipping’ Is Amazon Prime Day the new Christmas Day? Here’s what sold best around the world. [2 min read] Every great investment decision looks easy when you’re not the one doing it. ...
23 Jun The office is closed…23rd June 2017
There’s a lot of talk at the moment about the next stock market crash, and whilst history tells us there will be another one at some point, if you really knew when, why would you waste time telling everyone about it when you could be making your...
16 Jun The office is closed…16th June 2017
How not to raise a spoiled brat. One of the discussions we often have with clients with young children is about the challenge of raising children when you are a first generation wealth creator. As this article illustrates, sometimes parents find it extremely difficult to relate...
09 Jun The office is closed…9th June 2017
Well, it’s ended up being an ‘interesting’ week, hasn’t it? Here are a few distractions for you…. Charts don’t always show the full picture – [3 min read] I’ve recently started to study the Stoics. One of their philosophies was the practice of Inversion. Interesting stuff when applied to our...
12 May The office is closed 12.05.2017
First up this week, thanks to Robin Powell for alerting me to this cartoon which explores how difficult it can be to change our opinion about something we believe to be true [4 min read – WARNING some strong language] On the same theme of how people can sometimes refuse...
05 May The office is closed 05.05.2017
The Fee Paradox – manager fee rates are down, but investors are paying more [links to 32-page pdf] What’s a reasonable amount of time to wait for a response to an email? I agree with a lot in this article, but I don’t think I could ever wait...
13 Apr The office is closed 13.04.2017
When it comes to investing, being a snob can be very costly [3 min read] Everyone in our office uses multiple monitors – except for me and Rob. The argument for doing so is that it is more efficient. I tend to side more with this argument that doing...