
DIY investment mistakes to avoid – lesson 7, 8 & 9
DIY investing might be tempting but be careful not to get caught up in something you don’t really understand for the fear of missing...

DIY investment mistakes to avoid – lesson 4, 5 & 6
The savings from DIY investing can be quite easily wiped out by basic human mistakes and having a professional financial best friend to work...

DIY investment mistakes to avoid – lesson 1, 2 & 3
Let me share some of the errors I made so that you don’t make the same ones. Going it alone and making investment decisions...

Pension Planning – The Road To Your Family’s Financial Security
Congratulations to BBC Woman’s Hour presenter Emma Barnett who has just announced that she is expecting her second child at 37 after suffering a...

DIY Investing – will it save you money?
I believed managing my own investments would save me thousands of pounds… It all started some 30 years ago when a colleague came into...

Save for a mortgage they said, it will be fun they said!
…All you need to do is have fewer takeaways, give up the avocados, and barista coffee, and boom! A house is yours! BUT is...

Look after the Big One
Most 30 something year olds get thrown into a pension by their employers and escaping it takes some serious effort, so most just stay in for the ride. These pensions are called workplace pensions and your employer is compelled to pay into them.

You have heard of The Tinder Swindler now meet The Cash Con Tricksters
I was young, naïve and impressionable when I first got involved with a bank I’ll call Cash Con. Only decades later could see the damage done by reliance on a false friendship. When the day dawned that I saw what an idiot I’d been, I cried tears into an empty purse. “Why did no one warn me?” I wailed.

Get the right attitude and investing is safe and easy
Expectations are resentments in the making, and we need the right attitude to stay safe when investing. I learnt a while ago that whenever...

New Year Tax Nudging
New Tax Year – Nudging yourself in the right direction The new tax year started 6th April and brought you fresh new annual allowances...