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#ShareNotShares

12^th November 2018

A year ago last week I started Financial Freedom Sooner. The company was set up as a non-profit organisation under a structure that meant it could never have shareholders to answer to. The only people I wanted the company to serve were its clients. One of my goals when I started the business was to...

Putting time in perspective

22^nd October 2018

Life is short. We hear that a lot. But how well do we appreciate just how short our lives are when put into the context of the whole of time. “If the Earth formed at midnight and the present moment is the next midnight, 24 hours later, modern humans have been around since 11:59:59pm—1 second....

Headline: Investment Markets Behave Normally!

15^th October 2018

If, against my advice, you were watching and/or reading the financial news last week you would have seen a lot of words like CRASH, SLUMP, ROUT, SELL-OFF, PLUNGE and TURBULENCE. Understandably, if you have money invested this might have made you a little nervous. All this language implies that something out of the ordinary is...

FIRE

8^th October 2018

I’m not the hot flamey type. The FIRE I’m talking about today is an acronym for Financial Independence Retire Early. This is a growing movement, particularly in the US, in which people are living by certain principles that allow them to retire decades earlier than normal. This is interesting to me as it takes ‘financial...

Thinking (very) long-term

24^th September 2018

As Brexit rumbles on….and on….and on, I’ve had a few people start to express their concerns about how a bad deal might affect their investment values and ask whether there is any action that we should be taking. I understand the concern and it’s a very natural question to ask. Of course, we want to...

Looking forward…to lower investment returns?

18^th September 2018

I’m always very wary when it comes to talking about possible future investment returns. It is my firm belief that anyone who tries to tell you how and when markets will move is more than likely a complete charlatan. But I also believe it is important to try and set realistic expectations.So, although it is...