If you want answers to any questions, chances are you simply pick up your phone and look online. But there are many questions in life that are simply too big for the internet to answer, ones that require specialist knowledge, insight and expertise. For example, you can’t just Google how you should personally manage your […]
So Christmas is over for another year. There were plenty of anecdotal stories of how much extra Christmas dinner cost this year: the meat, the wine, even the Christmas crackers – everything seemed to cost more. But let’s forget the anecdotal and concentrate on the numbers, which suggest that fresh food inflation rose at a […]
Money worries can have a devastating impact on a person’s life, causing untold stress and heartache day after day. So it’s really important that you’re not left feeling as if your finances are like a runaway juggernaut: out of control. Otherwise, you leave yourself vulnerable to a host of further financial problems, from growing debt […]
Overall Market Backdrop, January On 19th January, the U.S. government hit its borrowing ceiling of $31.4 trillion (as voted for back in December 2021 in Congress), raising concerns that any form of default would cause catastrophic effects on both domestic and global economies. Global equity markets started the year strongly, with the S&P 500 climbing […]