New to investing: Six potential pitfalls to avoid
You’ve established you attitude to risk, set your financial objectives and done your research; you live by the British Army’s ‘Rule of...
Investing Basics: Five simple investment rules
Rule 1: Start right now Start right now, even if it’s just a £1 a day or a week....
Six Savings Goals for Twenty-Somethings
If you’re in your 20s, you’ve probably recently left university and are finding your way in the world of...
Dangers of using social media for money matters
SOCIAL media – love it or hate it – it’s here to stay. There are 45 million active social media...
Investing Rules – OK? Part 2
In 2019 I wrote ‘Rules Rule OK’ that looked at useful investment-based rules of thumb to help us plan and track...
Investing Basics: Investing in your 20s & 30s
Once upon a time it was easy to save money into a bank or building society savings account and get...
Investing Rules – OK? Part 1
I’m not going to talk about the FCA or HMRC rules, but the far more useful investment-based rules of...
Money Basics: Is Gen Z the most saving-savvy generation?
Each generation handles money in a different way. Afterall, people have grown up in different eras, they place value...
Younger Investors Take Control of Their Finances in Coronavirus Lockdown
With time on their hands because of the restrictions imposed to control the coronavirus pandemic, there has been a huge...
Barclays joins the robo advice fray with Plan & Invest
Banking behemoth Barclays plans to help to close the much talked about ‘advice gap’ with the launch of a...
Investing Basics: Letting Income Funds do all the Work
Investing Basics: If you are new to investing or not yet confident in picking your own investments, then the idea...
DIY investors increasingly fuelling demand for investment trusts
One of the few good news stories to come out of the pandemic is that with time on their hands...
Nervous investors shun stocks and shares in favour of cash ISAs as rates hit decade long low
Figures from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) for the 2018-9 tax year show the number of new cash ISAs jumped, but...
How advisors are engaging millennials and female investors in the States
You may have read plenty of articles describing the differences between generations such as baby boomers and millennials. ...
HP Source: Populism days of reckoning beckons
‘I'm asking him to change his ways And no message could have been any clearer If you want to...
The Pandemic’s Money-Changing Habit
Compared to the French or the Italians, the British are not savers.63% of French people save to ensure they...
Gamified investing apps could seriously damage millennials’ wealth
A recent investigation by the Financial Times has found that the latest crop of stock-trading apps may skip over...
HP Source: Out of step, but not out of time…
‘Caught up in circles Confusion is nothing new..’ I wrote in last week’s obituary of the Teenies how the...
10 years on, fintech hasn’t really delivered
Especially with all the recent Silicon Valley controversies, there have been a lot of people taking stock of the startup world - writes Viktor...
Have You Checked Your Car Insurance During Lockdown?
The cost of running a car doesn’t just involve paying one single monthly payment. There’s the cost for owning or...
