In this blog:

• Buffett on gold

• The budget – will she, won’t she?

• China and involution – bigger may be a lot more dangerous.

• One way to retire with friends

• Gordon Brown, and now Ms Reeves?

• “Private credit defaults” – cockroaches? It’s US sub prime again

• Perfect dip buying.

• The market crash: it’s coming, read this.

• Tariffs – things ain’t what they seem

• Getting your head around your age

• The bit of your wealth that’s missing.

• Avoid the folly of the crowd

In this blog:

1. No commission or ketchup: be a customer not the product.
2. Fidelity’s Magellan Fund, 29.2% annual return from 1977 to 1990 (from $20m to $14bn)
3. What to expect: outsourcing your key income decisions.
4. This pension paid the beneficiaries for 135 years: how long do you need yours?

In this blog:

1. Just how bad can your provider be? From pension co to Swiss private bank
2. “Even God can’t beat pound/cost averaging (“This is the last article you will ever need to read on market timing”)
3. “We should never be so old as merely to watch games instead of playing them”. Like food? Have you ever eaten this sandwich?

In this blog:

1. GDPR – sorry, you can’t read it, it’s GDPR chum
2. Buy low sell high: current underlying index criteria that should make any investor think.

In this blog:

1.    A recording of a real client conversation: it’ll amuse you.
2.    All your tax free allowances – use them to generate £16,000+ tax free.
3.    Hey you, don’t watch that watch this…
4.    So you think you understand pensions? Try this.

In this blog:

1. How the wealthy – very wealthy – spend their money.
2. The £XXXk pension mistake most people never spot.
3. Personal wealth – not about picking funds
4. From the Wall Street Journal – how to choose a financial adviser
5. Tax-smart income: minimising HMRC’s share.

In this blog:

1. The anxiety we deal with.
2. The most common pension mistakes made by DIY investors.
3. Buffet: the fallacy of great fund managers.
4. When you probably do need an adviser.
5. How to tell the difference between cost and value.

In this blog:

1. Ageing: from Slush Puppies to a Glenfarclas, Bluey to the Old Man and the Sea, a Bullworker to a Garmin watch – things change.
2. MSCI World, 10- year annual returns – 14.5% or 0.9% for exactly the same investment.
3. Why the FT wrote about Chancery Lane
4. The data on gold – should you?