“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because somebody planted a tree a long time ago” – Warren Buffet On the Money: Alan Steel Now that we’re a few days into 2020 I wonder how many of you have already given up on your New Year Resolutions ? According to a bunch of statisticians with too […]
Scammers are nothing new, but don’t fall for the same old tricks
On the Money: Alan Steel I am so old that when I started as an independent financial adviser back in January 1973, the Dead Sea was just seriously ill and Long John Silver had two legs and an egg on his shoulder. Interest rates were so far into double figures they suffered from vertigo so […]
Don’t get caught out playing the waiting game
On the Money: Alan Steel “On a golden autumn day returning, where each moment never is the same. Sometimes pure joy it comes with patience, when I’m waiting on the waiting game There must be a reason for all this inaction. Does it mean everything must change? Sometimes I’m looking for perfection, when I’m waiting […]
Turn off, tune out and stop worrying
On the Money: Alan Steel How are you all surviving the End of the World? What with tariff wars going on between Trump and everybody else, yet another worst-ever hurricane in living memory, recession talk dominating the conversation at dinner parties, and now the longest running farce since Brian Rix’s Whitehall frolics…. the Muppet Show […]
Be patient and your step into investment will see a leap in returns
On the Money: Alan Steel Nineteen Sixty Nine was some year for optimists. And if you were a pessimist you weren’t missed out either. On the bright side there was the first man on the moon. Before that was Woodstock, the first big free Rock festival. Concorde had its first test flight. And exactly 50 […]