Investments Archives

How Barbie manages her finances in the 20's 30's and 60's

Barbie’s replies to our 5 Financial Questions!

Posted on 31st August 20238th September 2023 by Samantha Secomb

We asked 20-something year old Barbie some money and finance questions and then we asked her again at 30 something and at 60 something...

DIY investment mistakes to avoid – lesson 10, 11 & 12

Posted on 9th December 20229th December 2022 by Jo Christodoulou

Don’t imagine short-term fashion or hype is worth straying from your long term plan, EQUALLY don’t neglect the portfolio and have disciplined reviews based...

DIY investment mistakes to avoid – lesson 7, 8 & 9

Posted on 25th November 202225th November 2022 by Jo Christodoulou

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

Posted on 11th November 202211th November 2022 by Jo Christodoulou

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

Posted on 28th October 202228th October 2022 by Jo Christodoulou

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...

DIY Investing – will it save you money?

Posted on 27th September 20229th March 2023 by Jo Christodoulou

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!

Posted on 17th August 202219th August 2022 by Vicky Ngoma

…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

Posted on 27th July 202231st July 2022 by Samantha Secomb

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

Posted on 1st July 20226th March 2023 by Samantha Secomb

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

Posted on 23rd May 202213th February 2023 by Samantha Secomb

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

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