A search on Google for passive investing vs active investing yields 1,330,000 results with plenty of support on both sides of the fence.  I...

Well it looks like asset prices don’t always go up.  Of course I’m not surprised by this revelation but the mainstream media did seem surpr...

Over my 9-year journey to financial independence (FI) I’ve had a number of readers of both this blog and the fora that I frequent ask me if...

You don’t have to travel far into most personal finance sites before you find the obligatory compound interest post.  Even I did one back i...

With FIRE now on the doorstep  it’s time to finalise what my early retirement drawdown strategy and portfolio is going to look like. Firs...

I don’t think there would be much argument that millennials have it pretty tough financially with their plight now starting to make it into...

Firstly, an interesting article in the Financial Times today – Retirement experts campaign for pension freedom age to rise to 65  (should b...

I am a disciple of Tim Hale who in my humble opinion is the investing granddaddy for UK investors.  From the emails I receive it’s rare...

Stock market prices go up and down continuously.  Stock market prices also trend up and down over longer periods of time.  In recent week...

So you’ve decided that you would like to try and gain some volatility versus return free lunch via some Bonds mixed in with your Equities ...

Two events have occurred in the past week that prompt this post: My Defined Contribution Company Pension transfer to a Hargreaves Lansdow...

This week as I was thumping up and down the motorway on my lengthy daily commutes I couldn’t help but take some glimpses of the current and...

When I set out my Investing Strategy some years ago , which included my initial asset allocation as well as how that allocation would chang...

Once you’ve done plenty of your own research (which in my opinion must include a thorough read of Tim Hale's Smarter Investing: Simpler...

My retirement investment strategy  has been relatively unchanged since I started this blog in 2009.  When you boil it all down around 90%...

In the modern, in my opinion overly complex, financial world there must by now be nearly as many investment risks as there are grains of sa...

Today’s post title will possibly make High Yield Portfolio (HYP) advocates think I'm about to talk about Tesco’s (Ticker: TSCO) Frida...

Noel Whittaker in his book Making Money Made Simple states that in a country such as the UK (he actually cites Australia as an example) “...

Some might think this post a little cynical however I've found that it sometimes pays to be a little cynical so here goes.  Businesses ...

As I sit here writing this post the Excel spreadsheet that I use to track my wealth and portfolio performance tells me that I have accrued ...