I was talking to a friend last night about what I’m currently doing with my life, and discussing whether either of us fancied starting a new business in the teeth of the recession. He told me – not for the first time – that he was getting itchy feet, and that he felt in a [...]
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(Source: Google Finance) When I wrote about currency risks and opportunities for investors in January, I mentioned I was going to leave my holdings in Japan untouched, rather than cashing in on the Japanese yen’s strength by converting my Nikkei tracker funds back into UK pounds. At the end of March, however, I changed my [...]
Every week I read a large number of personal finance and investing articles. Here’s my latest weekly shortcut to the best. Happy Easter! I’m in the country visiting my father and helping out with various strange tasks. I know I’m not the first person to be struck by the symmetry of life, and how you [...]
This is the final part in a series of three posts on riding out a bear market. To be sociable and mix things up a bit, the first two posts are on two other splendid financial blogs: MoneyNing (Part 1: Beat market volatility by being boring) Investing School (Part 2: Ignore your portfolio for months [...]