In this blog:

1. Capital and income are not correlated

2. Boringly predictable

3. Inflation – what goes up must come down

4. And while we’re here… is this a trigger?

5. Solicitors look away now

In this blog:

1. The Magic Money Machine

2. £90,000 per year, net, for life, inflation adjusted. The aNewuity: when ‘pension’ means ‘income’.

3. “What were you thinking?”

In this blog:

1. Get one investment decision right per year

2. Interest rates – running away with the money

3. Ahhh Google, what have you done?

4. If the money feels tight, consider the pricing involved in the tech you are buying

5. A tale of two mortgages

In this blog:

1. Example: National Grid 2024 5.875%

2. All 747’s are planes, but not all planes are 747’s

3. Lifting the lid on part of our analysis

In this blog:

1. Get the size right – too big can be catastrophic

2. Getting the size wrong can be fatal as well

3. Rachel Reeves and the Lifetime Allowance Show

ISAs, or Individual Savings Accounts, have been around for over 20 years – since Google had its debut and Bill Clinton was impeached. Rewind to 1999, and the Chancellor Gordon Brown introduced the product in the hope of encouraging us to save more for the future. Since then, they’ve become an essential part of many a financial plan.

One of the key aims of the ISA was to make saving simple. However, as with many things finance-related, successive governments have tinkered with parts of ISAs, added new products and altered limits. The net result is that picking an ISA product and understanding how to make the most of your allowance is not quite as simple as it was initially meant to be!

Our free, 12-page essential guide to ISAs talks you through what an ISA is, the different types of ISAs and why should you choose one.

The Telegraph runs a weekly column called the Telegraph Money Makeover – readers write in if they are seeking help with their finances and the journalist of the day contacts firms like ours to ask if we’d like to write in with recommendations in return for getting name-checked in the paper (we’ve been there several times over the last few years)…

In this blog:

1. The 5 ways to get income from your pension

2. Bonds at that mythical 5%

3. Never pay full rate 40% or 45% income tax again

In this blog:

1. Question 1 – do you need your income guaranteed or not?

2. Question 2 – is this an area of your expertise?

3. Possible vs probable vs guaranteed

4. The most important element of the objective

In this blog:

1. Periodic active v passive reconciliation

2. The Vanguard question

In this blog:

1. The $12.5 million idea

2. Moneyball for pensions

3. We are data analysts

4. Good recipe, but what’s the cake like?

5. So long, farewell

6. And Alan did run

7. Almost Methuselah

News comes that Britain cleans up in the first ever litter picking World Cup. A UK team were crowned champions in Japan after collecting 83 kilos of rubbish in just 45 minutes…

In this blog:

1. “Is the manager in?”

2. You don’t need to calculate the distance to the sun, remember Pythagoras, or measure the visibility to see the horizon.

3. Do you have £1 million?

It is only a few years ago now that the cash till in our local was nothing more than a wooden drawer slung under the rear counter. No one paid by card. John, the tenant landlord, would work out his cellar order with notebook and pencil and phone it in…

“I don’t have to pretend to like the theatre or foreign holidays and I can spend all afternoon in the pub with my pals.”

So says Marcus Berkman in his book - Still a Bit of Snap in The Old Celery - published Thursday this week…

In this blog:

1. How not to drive into an investment wall

2. Problem 1

3. Problem 2

There are many good reasons to invest rather than just ‘save’ money – and before your imagination runs away with you, we are not talking investment aka the Wolf of Wall Street. That said, at one end of the scale investing can, indeed, provide an opportunity to increase your net worth or perhaps make you independently wealthy. However, the reality is that most of us would be more than happy at the prospect of knowing we’ll have a decent financial umbrella or of being able to retire comfortably or sooner than we’d planned. Investing can

In this blog:

1. Asset rich, and cash poor

2. Tontine, not Tonto

3. Lifetime Allowance - a note from Martin

Everyone, it seems, has a point of view about the latest and last Beatles release.

The Guardian put it this way:
“A moody, reflective piano ballad, it’s clearly never going to supplant Strawberry Fields Forever or A Day in the Life in the affections of Beatles fans, but it’s a better song than Free as a Bird or Real Love…”

In this blog:

1. Don’t ignore the objective and debate the detail

2. Starting with the basics

3. Two rules of thumb that investors should accept and not debate

4. Why doesn’t everyone do this?