When I was working amongst other investment professionals in my day job, I saw it clearly: women tend to generate better, more consistent returns. So it’s unfortunate that women are under-represented in the investment industry. Female outperformance is...
You might have noticed an election is imminent. The outcome looks pretty certain but the challenges for any party are the same. And the policy scope is severely limited by our public finances. All parties want to fix things but in reality there’s a massive...
Gold is on a good run, reaching record highs*, at the time of writing. In this article I’ll bust some myths about gold, review what’s driving this rally, consider whether we should own it now, and show the best way to invest. Historically, I’ve never...
Investing can be rewarding. Not just financially, but also intellectually as it makes our brain work differently and stops it getting lazy. Anyone can set-up a Core portfolio – a lazy, set-and-forget exercise! We can stop there and it will compound passively,...
When investing, if all you do is get average returns (historical stockmarket average is 8-10% pa) and avoid common mistakes, your portfolio will compound very handsomely over the long term. If you try to shoot the lights out with every investment you make,...
