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What should you do when pundits predict a crash?
By ROBIN POWELL I keep seeing warnings that stocks are about to crash. Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson recently likened investors buying into the Q1 rally to climbers scaling Mount Everest without considering the risks. Two people who famously called the sub-prime mortgage crisis — the Lehman Brothers trader-turned-author Larry McDonald and Michael...
Three ways gratitude can improve your financial wellbeing
Research has shown that practising gratitude has real mental health benefits, and those can extend to our financial wellbeing as well. When it comes to personal finance, many people focus on the practical aspects like budgeting, saving, and investing. However,...
The 4% Rule: How reliable is it?
There are no shortcuts to anyplace worth going. — Beverly Sills In our hectic lives, everyone likes a quick answer. How about this one: When you can live off 4% of your portfolio annually you are financially independent. Short and...
Lack of persistence suggests performance owes much to luck
If you’ve ever read a prospectus (or, for that matter, an S&P DJI research report), you know that “past performance is no guarantee of future results”. At one level, if you understand that, you understand the most important thing about S&P...
Introducing Second Lives, a brand new podcast series from TEBI
Since 2016, The TEBI Podcast has interviewed the great and the good from the world of investing, money management and personal finance. But it’s going to start looking at a fresh theme — the pursuit of happiness, and how to lead...
True financial freedom is having enough
Life is a balance of holding on and letting go. — Rumi As financial independence (FI) enthusiasts, we are diligently calculating and planning the dollars we need to meet our FI goals. But FI is about a lot more than...
Have you read our award-winning book?
Robin writes: It’s rare that Aston Villa supporters go to Wembley and actually experience WINNING something. But last night it finally happened. How to Fund the Life You Want, which I wrote with Jonathan Hollow, is officially an award-winning book. It was...
