Thinking Positive & Behavioural Finance

Well, here we are. One month into 2011 already! I hope the year has started well for you. One theme I have noticed is that the media can’t wait to push the idea that everyone is losing their jobs and we are all facing a tough time. Now, of course some everyday items are more [...]

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Ice say, It’s Snow Joke

I am imagining the title above to be said in a Terry Thomas voice! It’s been quite a month hasn’t it? Up here in Northumberland we have had amazing amounts of snow, with it reaching around 3 to 4 feet where untouched. I will get my rant out of the way right now – where [...]

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Changes to ‘Retail Financial Services’ & Backing Up (again!) – Ray Prince

Graeme Urwin recently wrote that the Financial Services Authority have published their final version of the Retail Distribution Review Consultation paper. I won’t go over what Graeme said, although if you want to know more you can read it here: My piece on it is that it’s long overdue. Unfortunately, the reality is that there [...]

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Seeing the Future Clearly- Graeme Urwin

I am writing this a week or so before my father has an operation to hopefully save his sight. He has a complicated condition as well as having glaucoma. He is virtually blind in his left eye, and the op is a new cutting edge procedure at Moorfields to try to halt the decline in [...]

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