Accounts you need to know about: Your ISA…
The most important account for someone UK-based to succeed financially is a stocks and shares ISA… If you really want to make giant strides with your financial situation you need to start saving some money from your income each month. No matter what your view of the UK pension system, yo...
Accounts you need to know about: Current Accounts and Your Pension…
Before you can make any real progress financially you need to optimise your financial service providers. Many people are quite understandably bewildered by the complexity of the financial services industry. Much of the industry likes to keep it that way so they can charge you high fees for bad products. ...
Are you Riding the Tiger’s Tail?
Regular readers of these articles will be aware of an ongoing and oft-repeated theme of mine: Namely that, to a certain degree at least, you can run your financial affairs so that you shouldn’t need to worry overly about stock market crashes (or crashes in financial markets more generally). As...
ZIRP, inflation, QE and other animals...
In my last article, I referred to two reasons for the concerted equity market strength of recent years: First, the impact of certain very real structural changes on companies – primarily technological development and related globalisation. Secondly, the impact of what has been going on in the bond market – that is to s...
Are stock markets over valued or is there more upside from here? In my last email I highlighted the fact that lots of market commentators are suggesting that stock markets are heavily over valued at the moment and it might be time to get out and move your investments into ...
Sell in may and go away - continued...
In my most recent article, I looked at the classic stock market idea of “Sell in May”. By the end of the article, I suggested that regular monthly investment was likely a better overall approach than trying to time the market by doing things like selling in May to buy back...
Today I wanted to write about a quote that is well known in the investment community: Sell in May and go away, don’t come back till St. Leger’s Day Investopedia tells me that “This phrase refers to the custom of aristocrats, merchants and bankers who liked to leave the ci...
In my last article, we kicked off the subject of how you might go about investing in precious metals by looking at: Buying physical bullion and taking delivery – i.e. hiding gold and / or silver coins or bars in your own home (ideally doing this should involve a safe or, at...
In my last post I highlighted how gold has returned no less than 12.3% per annum since 2002 (in sterling terms). Today I thought I might spend a little time discussing various different ways you can invest in gold (and silver) since many people have been in touch to ask about this ...
Which investment has averaged 12.3% a year for sixteen years?
The answer may surprise you. Gold I have had a reasonable number of questions of late about precious metals and, in particular, how to go about buying them if so inclined, so thought it might be instructive to write an update on the issue. There seem to be few subjects ...
