Weekly Roundup, 24th November 2014
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…
Author: Mike Rawson
Contribution patterns
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…
Weekly Roundup,
18th November 2014
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
SIPPs vs ISAs: why you need both, and which one is most useful to the long-term DIY investor in the UK.
Do the math – how much is enough?
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.
Planning ahead
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…
UK Private Investor Weekly, 3rd Nov 2014
Weekly roundup for the long-term UK Private investor: active fund fees, paid advice, banks, traded life policies, German property, alternative assets.
Stockopedia at the London Investor Show 2014
The first presentation in the main auditorium at the London Investor Show was by Edward Page-Croft from Stockopedia, a company which sells subscriptions to a stock-screening and ranking service. Most…
A nice day out – London Investor Show 2014
In the age of gigabit internet and the ubiquitous webinar, you could be forgiven for wondering who still turns up for the traditional exhibition-hall conference. Well, last week I did…
