When you consider investing in property, it’s easy to think “I haven’t got enough money to even buy my first house, let alone invest in property.” Traditionally, investing in property is seen as a very expensive business. After all, you’ve got to find the money for the deposit. Then you’ve got …
What do you think about when you see the word RISK? via GIPHY It can conjure up all sorts of horrible images and thoughts right? It may even make you want to back. away. slowly. before running out the door!! And you wouldn’t be wrong. The work “risk” literally means: “the …
October 5-11th is financial planning week this year, and I thought I’d answer a question that came up in my community recently. “What’s the best thing to do with a lump sum of cash?” This is such a great question, and I think very timely for financial planning week! So let’s …
The NHS pension causes A LOT of headaches for people, which is why I asked Medical IFA Sarb Chahal and Medical Accountant Tina Milligan to come into my facebook group to talk about it from a beginner’s perspective. It was a LONG session!! I definitely think there is scope to do more …
Scams are sadly part and parcel of modern daily living. It’s the reason why your bank is going to great lengths to stop you from spending money from your account without checking and double checking with you that what you are doing is a legitimate transaction. It happens all the time, and …
Ok, before I start this post, I want you to know that I’m not a financial adviser, so anything you read should be backed up by your own research. This post is for educational purposes and not to be confused with advice. Remember that with investing your money can go down as …
Investing is an alien concept for a lot of people – it’s for white-haired, pin-striped-suit wearing men isn’t it? It’s only if you have money? Investing is boring and complicated. It’s for o-l-d people. Well I can categorically say that ALL of those statements are NOT TRUE. The quicker you realise …
When we think about pensions, the temptation can be to switch off, ignore it completely or promise that we’ll “look at it” but it goes waaaaay down the priority list and never gets looked at. The issue is though, we CAN’T ignore this. The longer we leave doing anything about it, …
This is such an interesting question! I saw it in a facebook group recently and I was inspired to write a post about it because I suspect that it is a question that a lot of people ask themselves. I often see saving and investing used interchangeably- I’ve done it …
So you may have noticed that the markets have dropped lately – even if you aren’t currently an investor you couldn’t not have seen it! The news has been FULL of it! What I want to do in this post is hopefully make you feel more reassured that investing in …