I know that the odds of crashing are very low – I know I am going to land safely. I know all this but why am I now so twitchy about flying…and what has this got do with how you might be feeling right now??
“The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient” - Warren Buffet Occasionally a client will ask me why we rarely change our portfolios. I think this is a fair and legitimate question at the best of times and with
‘Financial planner’ and ‘Elton John’ don’t often get to feature in the same sentence but if as Elton sings “sorry seems to be the hardest word” maybe it should happen a wee bit more…
For those of who have been round the block a few times with us will know that we place a great deal of emphasis on keeping your investment costs as low as possible.
For those that like to keep an eye on the market you will undoubtedly have noticed that global financial markets have had a turbulent start to the year. Having worked with most of you for many years now I am confident that you will now have
Although 2021 marked a further year of uncertainty there were definite signs of a return to a more normal life following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Stock markets continued to climb higher (and showed, yet again, there ain't no crystal ball when
“What goes up, must come down!” But does this ring true for shares too? Physics and investing are two completely different topics, but humans are conditioned to think that after a rise in something… there must come a fall.
I don't know about you, but don't you find the recent stock market rebound a bit puzzling? If so, you are not alone.
If ever there was a need to be reminded that stock markets respond to news (especially of the bad variety), the onset and spread of coronavirus is it.
To say that “money isn’t everything” is more than just a cliché. Studies in the early 1970s demonstrated that happiness had not increased in line with income over the previous half century. Today the developed world is wealthier than ever but ‘how to be happier’