#80 — Are we facing a "lost decade" for equity markets?

How to stop worrying about what markets may or may not do... Earlier this week, one of the members of our Community shared a piece with the rest of the group quoting an investment bank's chief equity strategist suggesting that "The stock market faces a lost decade of zero ...

#79 — Fund Update and a note on Russia...

Today I am delighted to be able to share our updated "Fund Overview" document. This version of the document is updated to include performance numbers and other charts and graphs to the 31st of December 2021. More important, however, we also explain some minor changes we have made to ...

#78 — "First Principles..."

It has been quite a while since my last article.  As I explained in that piece, I quit my day job back in May to go full-time on all things Plain English Finance.  Since then, I’ve had my hands reasonably full working on several key initiatives for the business, the d...

#77 — Big News. Big Plans...

So... I quit my day job... If you have followed our content for any length of time or taken account of my biography in “How to Own the World” or on Amazon, you may be aware that I have had a “day job” for most of the last six and a half y...

#76 — How "ESG" are we?

Many readers will be aware that one of the biggest investment themes in the last few months and years has been something called “ESG”. In Europe alone, ESG funds attracted not far off half of all new investment flows in 2020 – a total of €223 billion! ESG stands for “Environmental, Social and Governance...

#75 — One Powerful Way To Improve Your Finances...

6 Free Issues of MoneyWeek? It is a beautiful sunny, blue-sky morning in South West London (for the first time in far too long it feels like). I wanted to share an offer today which I hope might be of interest to many of our readers. Lots of people who have ...

#74 — Three men on a mission...

Our webinar with two Professors... I'm writing today to share a webinar I did a few weeks ago for our "How to Own the World Community" To watch the webinar use this link and the passcode: 4Y28bsi% If you've been reading these articles for a while, you ...

#74 — Another year, another ISA deadline not to care about!

Dusting down my old ISA article... As many of you will be aware from the annual advertising bombardment that surrounds the ISA year end – you have until midnight next Monday the 5th of April to ensure that you use (or lose) this year’s ISA allowance. Given this reality, in the ...

#73 — Record low interest rates, record high stock markets..

What can you do? It is pretty clear that one of the biggest challenges facing people at the moment is the toxic and rather scary combination of interest rates at record lows and stock markets near record highs. This is a real conundrum for investors – and that is putting it mi...

#72 — "It's hip to be square"

Today is world book day There is a joke that is reasonably popular in places like silicon valley (for pretty obvious reasons) which goes something like this: Question: "What does the high school quarterback call the high school nerd a few years after high school? Answer: "Boss!" ...