On the Money
I may have mentioned previously that a survey carried out in the US by the Wall Street Journal found that the main reason for sleepless nights of Baby Boomers wasRead More
We had a recent visit from a retired couple just turned 70, recommended by their best friends who have been clients for 20 years. Their IFA, they explained, was aRead More
Where has the year gone ? Suddenly it’s May. And with May comes the fresh plant growth that’s such welcome news. However to balance that along comes our weary economists,Read More
How easy is it to pick winners? Take last Saturday’s Grand National at Aintree for instance. The horse I backed at 20 to 1 came in last at 20 pastRead More
Anybody even just glancing at the money pages over the last week can’t have failed to notice it’s that time again. For some reason or other financial journalists deem thisRead More
Last week we had our Spring UK Budget. Immediately afterwards I, and a hundred others, strived manfully to report all the changes. A week later the biggest fund raiser changeRead More
Next week I’m off to “celebrate” (not sure that’s the right word) a special birthday . You can easily work it out given I was born in the middle ofRead More
I see it’s becoming a widely held view among “experts” and other official pessimists that you can’t forecast future investment performance. So is it time to change well known investmentRead More
2015 had been predicted by most experts to be a good year for stock market investors. Based on what? Most probably because the previous two years had been pretty special. Read More
Almost seven years ago in a crazy diner in Tampa Bay’s Anna Maria Island my old friend Pete introduced me to what he called “the Brains Trust”. It included folksRead More
