Author: Mike Rawson
Stockomendation – all of the tips at once
We take a look at Stockomendation, an aggregator which has all of the stock tips you could ever need. But are they any good?
Asset allocation vs. Costs vs. Taxes
We look at a new study of asset allocation strategies, and wonder whether things are more complicated than people think.
Budget 2015
We take a look at Osborne’s last Budget of this Parliament – pension lifetime allowance, ISAs, VCTs, incomes & savings tax, Help to Buy ISA and oil tax cuts.
Weekly Roundup, 18th March 2015
Weekly Roundup for the UK Private Investor: savings inequality, tax-free pensions, the housing crisis, traded annuities, art, care costs and wages.
Piggyback Portfolio 8 – Nifty Thrifty
Piggyback Portfolio – part 8 in a series where we screen public portfolios for stock ideas. We look at the Nifty Thrifty portfolio, and performance to date.
Stop Losses
Do Stop Losses really work? We look at the evidence and come up with some rules for using them.
Social Trading and Black Swans
The perils of Social Trading, including survivorship bias and Black Swans – lessons from the FX meltdown after the removal of the Swiss Franc Euro peg.
SmallCap Growth Portfolio 2
SmallCap Growth Portfolio – we choose 15 AIM stocks from our lengthy watchlist to put in our 2014/15 ISA.
Weekly Roundup, 10th March 2015
Weekly Roundup for the UK Private Investor: tax avoidance, VCTs, pensions, P2P, crowdfunding, farmland, trading rules, Apple and property taxes
Tax Avoidance
Today’s post is about Tax avoidance. In the news Tax avoidance scandals have been in the news a lot recently, but that isn’t why I decided to write about the…
The Banker and the Fisherman
Today’s post is about the parable of the banker and the fisherman. The banker and the fisherman I’m sure many of you will have come across this story before. This is…
