In this blog:

1. Gertcha!

2. Are you rich? Êtes-vous riche?

3. It's getting hard to tell gambling from investing

4. Looking at a trust: Temple Bar

5. This is important if you want to be relaxed

6. Annuity rates at 9th December

In this blog:

1. Can you play tennis?

2. How does a trust work, is it that simple and what’s the difference between the ‘majors’?

3. Have we reached Peak 65? Not old, ‘older’?

4. Look at a trust: why we love Law Debenture

5. Fancy some crypto? How to lose your shirt, or, what they don’t tell you.

In this blog:

1.    10 year discrete returns – the FTSE index vs the active sectors, can you spot a trend?
2.    Retiring – what you’re supposed to be doing.
3.    What was born in 1960, costs £2.3m and you use it to thrash around a race track?
4.    Lucky – this is you and me.

In this blog:

1. Top trusts for income.
2. The last time this happened.
3. We invest in preparedness, not in prediction (you should to).
4. Our story - ever wondered who we are and how Chancery Lane got here?

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In this blog:

In the 70’s and 80’s Japanese commercial businesses and large scale engineering were globally dominant alongside the US. As incompetence drove the UK car industry into dust, so Toyota and Datsun stole their lunch. From 1986 to 1991…

In this blog:

1.    Don’t get fooled again – the grubby facts within private equity / credit.
2.    Can you name this?
3.    UK – what Reeves is blatantly avoiding discussing.
4.    If you think you know better than Buffett.

In this blog:

• Things Go Better with Coke

• The Magic of Dividend Compounding

• Not Just Coca-Cola - Berkshire's Dividend Empire

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?

In this blog:

1.    Gilt ladders – how they work, and the giant downside.
2.    Did you ‘beat the market?’
3.    Is your income increasing or decreasing? Know the right question to ask.
4.    Sweden – flat pack pensions, really.

In this blog:

1.    Are we normal?
2.    The influence of behavioural economics on personal pensions
3.    Investment decisions: How much people save
4.    Asset allocation: How people invest
5.    Income drawdown: How people spend in retirement.

In this blog:

1.    S&P500 – like Tiffany it’s expensive though is it value for money?
2.    It’s not about the money: a grown up in America
3.    The Pension Revolution: Doug Brodie & George Aliferis live on YouTube
4.    All the way from America: What’s the best withdrawal strategy in retirement?

In this blog:

1.    Gulf Oil and the 500% dividend.
2.   How to leave $8m in your will.
3.   Yes, you are paying more tax.
4.   “Forever young” – the problem with DIY investing.
5.   If Buffet and Munger were partners, how come Warren got all the wealth?
6.  You might not need us, here’s a wider used alternative.