As a new investor, here are reasons why you could be better suited to funds What are funds? Funds offer an easy way to invest and conveniently diversifies your investment across a number of different assets. …

The early-90s, GFC and COVID-19 recessions slowed-down explosive growth, but the show still goes on. What’s a recession? A recession occurs when GDP (Gross Domestic Product: measures the size of a country’s economy) contracts for 2 quarters in a row — basically caused by a decline in economic activity. Early 1990s Recession (1990–91)

Should I be worried about the future or should I go ahead and buy? Similarities with the Global Financial Crisis My previous article looked at how the UK property market was impacted by the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). The circumstances leading to the GFC were very different to the COVID-19 pandemic. …

Home-owners are worried about the future of the property market post COVID-19. Firstly, take a look at what happened in the last financial crisis. What is the GFC? If you have watched The Big Short, then you probably know about The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) 2008 or lived through it. GFC 2008 was mainly…

Does a world where we write simply and concisely, without jargon exist — We are used to including corporate jargon in the way we communicate. You don’t need complex sentences to express complex ideas. In my experience, the harder the subject, the more informally experts speak. You know what they say, “if you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough”. Why don’t we write how we speak?

This tragic event has shifted the spotlight to global racial inequality, and quite frankly, we are tired. TIME FOR CHANGE George Floyd’s death was traumatic for many of us in the Black community and we have had enough. Not only did it lead to a global protest against racial inequality & police brutality…

There are two things certain in life; death and taxes. How well prepared are you for the former? Me: “Mum, have you considered getting life insurance?” Mum: “Ehhhh?! Are you trying to kill me?! God forbid, it’s not me that will die before my time!” … and that is how…

UK policyholders have been dealt a huge blow to find out that some of their policies hold no weight against COVID 19 related losses, and a few are taking it out on insurers. Some insurers are facing legal action from SMEs who say that their legitimate business interruption (BI) claims…

Whilst the tragedy caused by COVID-19 cannot be described in words, we can try to describe its effect on the UK insurance market and essentially, its threat to “life as we know it”. The pandemic has taken the market by storm. We were just speaking on claims from storms Ciara…