One of the most valuable exercises I run through with clients is “flawcasting” their financial future. It’s one thing to create a personal balance sheet setting out your existing assets and liabilities, and getting an...
(To a large extent, this blog is oriented towards money. But when I talk about “wealth” and “risk” it’s important to think in much broader terms. Wealth is not just about money. And managing...
“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets”, wrote Arthur Miller, famed playwright (and husband of Marilyn Munroe for 16 years). There’s a lot of wisdom in that...
In 2018, this website had roughly 7,000 visitors, nearly 11,000 visits, and over 20,000 page views. I published 64 new articles, bringing the total of articles on this blog to over 300. In recent...
Some links to interesting articles in published media such as The Press, The Sunday Star Times, and The Herald from recent months: John McCrone wrote a valuable article about “How to succeed at the retirement game“....
In the 24 June 2017 edition of The Press: Janine Starks exhorts us: “Don’t get MAD, get a firm grip on the reins“. MAD is an acronym for Money Anxiety Disorder. Starks prescribes ten...
We all take lessons from the past and apply these to making predictions about the future. This is both appropriate and necessary in many situations. The difficulty is that sometimes the lessons we learn...
One of the more disruptive technologies in the financial services industry at the moment is what is known as “roboadvice”. Services such as Betterment and Wealthfront in the US are at the vanguard of...
If you’re interested in reading some of the articles from this blog in book form, today is your lucky day! I’ve self-published a collection of articles, ordered thematically, via Lulu.com. The book is available...
If a genie granted you just one wish, you’d have to be very careful what you wished for. You might ask him to stop human suffering. And he could do it. But he might...
The folly of predicting market downturns
6 Aug, 2018
How to calculate your asset allocation
16 Sep, 2018
21 Dec, 2017
When taking too little risk is risky
16 Jul, 2018
How to flawcast your financial future
8 Feb, 2019