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…
Category: The Problem
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…
How Much is Enough? (Revisited)
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…
Deal Size
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…
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…
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…
