Money for Life – Financial Health Check
This post is the first in a series describing the basics of personal finance – the things that you need to do before you start investing. Life Stages Life can…
This post is the first in a series describing the basics of personal finance – the things that you need to do before you start investing. Life Stages Life can…
My first reaction when I picked up the Metro free paper last week was that we must have imported another American holiday while I wasn’t looking. I knew it wasn’t…
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…
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…
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…
We introduce 28 hypothetical long-term DIY investors in the UK, at 14 points along 3 journeys to retirement and financial independence – the 7C investors.
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