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Blinded by numbers?
Impactful financial planning has little to do with numbers. The numbers are part of the story, the numbers only matter because of the story. It's striking how little numbers and products are discussed in our client meetings. The reason is that clients don't relate to...
Easier Vs Better
My work is to help you make big decisions more easily. Those decisions always relate to one aspect of your life or another. Often the decision is not to do something. I try to help you feel that those decisions aren't difficult. That you are "safe" (whatever that...
Haven’t you got something better to do with your time?
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. It also massively reduces his chances of truly improving his lot if you ask me. My best ideas and new thinking come when I am doing something other than “work”. In essence it is these better ideas and new thinking that...
Musings 7/6
Worth a moment to ponder? Needs vs Wants What we need and what we want are often confused. We need very little – food, water, air and shelter. We mistakenly think we need intimacy, coffee, laughter etc. In fact we simply want them, and that’s ok but having them...
The only “skill” an investor ever needs
You'd be forgiven for thinking that successful investing is a dark art. Reserved only for those with a certain genius, pHd. To consistently produce an investment return that beats inflation (after costs) over the longer term seems otherworldly and beyond the reach of...
Koalas Vs Tractors
Life is about comparisons, we often need to choose one thing over the other. Therefore comparisons ought to be on a like for like basis - apples to apples, not apples to lemons. When a client compares bank interest to investment returns, important points must be made....
Good reads 06/23
Three articles worth your attention: Seth Godin - Cultural Distress: Your emotions are always being played by others. Simply recognising that is the first step to freedom? Ben Carlson - Stock, Bond & Cash Returns Over the Past 95 Years: It's always good to be...
TCFP96: Time Immemorial
Have you noticed just how many positive headlines there are today compared with the start of the year? No? Me neither. Yet…. For 10 months in a row, US inflation has been falling – and soon interest rates will too. Energy prices have collapsed since all time highs...
Musings 24/5
Some recent thoughts... Lost in thought We can be so in love with our own thinking at time can’t we? We can get complete lost in them. And having become so invested in them we simply have to believe our thoughts are the one and only truth. And then we get...
The History Of Humanity?
All that's good and bad, beautiful and ugly can be contributed to thought. All our progression, all our regression - thought Everything good and bad to come - thought. We need new thinking to progress otherwise we don't. For me, new thinking comes from reading. So I...
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