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Question 1 – do you need your income guaranteed or not?
Question 2 – is this an area of your expertise?
Possible vs probable vs guaranteed
The most important element of the objective
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The $12.5 million idea
Moneyball for pensions
We are data analysts
Good recipe, but what’s the cake like?
So long, farewell
And Alan did run
Almost Methuselah
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“Is the manager in?”
You don’t need to calculate the distance to the sun, remember Pythagoras, or measure the visibility to see the horizon.
Do you have £1 million?
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Asset rich, and cash poor
Tontine, not Tonto
Lifetime Allowance - a note from Martin
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Don’t ignore the objective and debate the detail
Starting with the basics
Two rules of thumb that investors should accept and not debate
Why doesn’t everyone do this?
The internet can be a wonderful thing, and we think that the site at visualcapitalist.com has some interesting compilations of statistics. Here’s one that sticks out: if you’ve ever wondered if the French really are the work-shy-gilets-jaunes who retire as soon as they’ve learned to grow vines in the garden, well…
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When is a 3% return better for an investor than a 6% return?
Averages – simple, huh?
Like Helvellyn, investing seems quicker coming down than going up.
When is 3% more than 6%?
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What’s inside the grey box?
Probable v possible: the cost
Guarantees are contractual, dividends are discretionary
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Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future returns
Consider two investments side by side, one with a return of 4% and one with 8% - which one is the more profitable?
High or low relative to what?
What the data says.
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Investment trusts have two problems for IFAs
The data behind an income portfolio
Inflation – a key differentiator made transparent with data.
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The storm elements in western France
The storm elements in the investment atmosphere
Data driven research.
Some guarantees cost more than others – is your money at risk? In this blog:
What’s in a rate?
Understanding preference shares
As a company we are probably unique in having a section in our website that outlines for you how to write and give a eulogy. In this blog:
“With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me.”
“A billion here, a billion there …”
Here’s some good news (not in the headlines or Today on R4). And if someone runs $27bn, we’d like to hear what they think. In this blog:
A key part of inflation has gone negative
Here comes the bill
‘The weirdest time in 40 years’