A friend’s recent blog post resonated with my own thinking on how we spend our accumulated wealth. Often I meet wealthy clients with a very healthy and easy relationship with their money – it doesn’t have a hold on them. Other clients are afflicted by worry and a desire for more even though they want […]
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Many of us will insure what we own, from our car and TV to the family dog. Very few think to insure the cornerstone of their lifestyle – their income. Why bother protecting your income? Without it all your financial arrangements and plans will likely fail. Insuring your income is a keystone of most financial […]
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Read a great article the other day by Ian Cowie of the Daily Telegraph. It touches on a very real issue for most of us. Many people assume that retirement is so far down the line that they’ll be alright in the end and their state pensions will suffice. Really? Not that easy to maintain […]
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Recently I met a couple who became new clients a month or so ago. At the end of our last meeting I told them that since I’d really enjoyed working with them I’d like them to introduce their friends to me. Genuinely good people usually hang around with other nice people! This started an interesting […]
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This has the potential to be quite a boring post – an exhortation to save isn’t the most scintillating of topics. I suppose that we have a choice: either we spend all our income and enjoy a high standard of consumptive living pre-retirement and consequently scrape our way through retirement or we step back, form […]
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Unbiased.co.uk recently commissioned a report to see what consumer benefits there are in seeking independent financial advice (Full report can be found here). I was surprised that in Northern Ireland only 17% of the population use an independent financial adviser (IFA). Not many people would say that they are happy with the state of their […]
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I am increasingly convinced that the majority, if not all of us, have choices to make as to what we do with our money. Money can bring tremendous pressure to bear on a household and a lot of it is self-induced. People are not aware of what’s going to happen when they want to retire […]
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I am increasingly convinced that the majority, if not all of us, have choices to make as to what we do with our money. Money can bring tremendous pressure to bear on a household and a lot of it is self-induced. People are not aware of what’s going to happen when they want to retire […]
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I’ve advised a number of teaching professionals over the past 18 months who are approaching their normal retirement date, considering retiring early or accepting a voluntary redundancy. Their main concern tends to be uncertainty about the future and the impact of their decision to leave employment on their financial future. That’s where we come […]
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Some of you will already know that I recently attained Certified Financial Planner status. I am one of ten individuals in Northern Ireland who hold this designation. It is the only globally recognised mark of excellence for Financial Planners and approximately 1000 of us hold the qualification in the UK. The Chief Executive of the […]
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