World Money Show London, November 2014
A couple of weeks ago I made it over to the Queen Elizabeth II conference centre opposite Parliament, for the annual World Money Show London. It’s a two-day event which…
A couple of weeks ago I made it over to the Queen Elizabeth II conference centre opposite Parliament, for the annual World Money Show London. It’s a two-day event which…
This is a preliminary post comparing the basic data for a representative selection of UK brokers. I’ll use this data to draw up a short list of promising candidates to be…
Now that we know what the pattern of contributions over time looks like for our 7C investors, we need to decide on a deal size in order to work out how…
Active funds – costs and closet tracking Today’s weekly roundup begins with Merryn’s column, which looked at a report from Cass Business School on some of the problems with active funds. The first…
Now that we have calculated how much each of our example investors must contribute over their lifetimes, we need to decide when those contributions should be made – what are…
This week, there was a lot of attention in the papers and online about the consequences of the falling oil price. I will return to this in a later post….
SIPPs vs ISAs: why you need both, and which one is most useful to the long-term DIY investor in the UK.
How much is enough? We calulate how big the retirement pot needs to be for a range of long-term DIY investors in the UK.
Humans seem to focus on their immediate surroundings and the very near future. We also have a tendency to believe that things will always be the same and to be…
Weekly roundup for the long-term UK Private investor: active fund fees, paid advice, banks, traded life policies, German property, alternative assets.