Reduce tax in retirement with this Monevator assortment of legal moves to stay one step ahead of the taxman.
Investing
Our model passive portfolio is enjoying a day in the sun. All is well with the world. Surely disaster awaits?
All investments can fail. Some risks are vanishingly remote, but some people win the lottery twice so why take chances?
This table of UK asset class returns over the past 15 years brings to mind my love life over the same time period – incredible highs followed by miserable lows!
ISAs and SIPPs enable you to avoid tedious paperwork, as well sheltering your cash from tax.
We should own shares in all the market’s stocks, weighted according to their fraction of the overall value of the market.
A very unwelcome wake-up call reinforces The Greybeard’s determination to generate a retirement income from investment trusts.
Warren Buffett has given us his most explicit investment advice yet: Buy shares for the long-term and do it in an index fund.
The tech sector is great (apart from when it blows up of course) and UK focused index investors are missing out.
An ongoing study of the Nobel prize winning / billionaire stock pickers who suggest the best way forward is to use index funds.
The Greybeard is betting on income investment trusts as his retirement vehicle of choice. Here’s why.
Active investors can only beat the market if other active investors do worse. This isn’t a morality tale – it’s a warning with respect to your finances.
There’s a crucial difference between the fact that trying to beat the market is a zero-sum game, and the *misconception* that the same is true for investing.
There’s no need to overcomplicate investing. Like so much in life, it works best when you keep it simple. Here are the investing basics that underpin success.