Any Questions… Your forum, your questions, our advice, your answers I have just been promoted and will be working in Australia for a few years. I won’t need to spend all of my net earnings and I am also likely to receive… Read more →
The 2012 Budget Was it really just a millionaire’s budget, let’s find out…. The Budget to anyone involved in finance is like an Olympic sport is to athletes. There’s the build-up, the excitement, the anticipation, the one-on-one, the team spirit, the-them-and-us, the… Read more →
Location, Location, Location Investing in property has always been popular and here’s why… The age-old saying goes that “no one ever lost money in bricks and mortar” and whilst this may not be an absolute truth there is undoubtedly some long term… Read more →
What’s Hot Fifth Element, March 2012, and this is the news… If a week is a long time in politics; then 24 hours in the life of an economy is an eternity. In one day alone last week we saw petrol hit… Read more →
Figs & Dates It’s March, and yes it’s Budget month but let’s not dwell on it. Allegedly, temptation is the ruin of all men, and so in a month that sees the Chancellor’s Budget, I am going to resist the incredible urge… Read more →
Classic investments If you think a classic investment is just a pension fund, think again… It was recently suggested to me that survival is always a positive outcome, if that is true then one might argue that is all that came out… Read more →
Taxation vs Spending More drama than Alien Vs Predator, the UK National Debt reaches a staggering £1 trillion! Please bear with me. Ordinarily my remit is to write on micro subjects to better aid the understanding of business related, tax and financial… Read more →
What’s Hot – Feb-12 Fifth Element, February 2012 and this is the news… On a personal level 2011 had a huge amount going on. I did think on the basis that nothing continues forever (death, taxes, Peter Andre episodes aside) that 2012… Read more →
The 2011 PBR A Fifth Element ‘Making-Sense-of it’ special… A very happy New Year; it seems only appropriate to start with what were the closing headlines of 2011. The Autumn Statement, aka The Pre-Budget Report (PBR), is an interesting thing. Like Fry’s… Read more →
Christmas Retail Therapy – Part 2 Black Friday – who cares? We should, and here’s why The day after Thanksgiving Day in the United States is often referred to as ‘Black Friday’. Officially, it’s the first day of their Christmas shopping season… Read more →
