by Town Close Financial Planning | May 26, 2023 | financial planning
Have you noticed just how many positive headlines there are today compared with the start of the year? No? Me neither. Yet…. For 10 months in a row, US inflation has been falling – and soon interest rates will too. Energy prices have collapsed since all time highs... 
by Town Close Financial Planning | May 24, 2023 | General News
Some recent thoughts… Lost in thought We can be so in love with our own thinking at time can’t we? We can get complete lost in them. And having become so invested in them we simply have to believe our thoughts are the one and only truth. And then we get... 
by Town Close Financial Planning | May 22, 2023 | General News
All that’s good and bad, beautiful and ugly can be contributed to thought. All our progression, all our regression – thought Everything good and bad to come – thought. We need new thinking to progress otherwise we don’t. For me, new thinking... 
by Town Close Financial Planning | May 16, 2023 | Investment News
In financial planning reference is often made to the “risk-free rate of return”. To think that there is anything “risk-free” about financial planning (or life in general) is laughable in the extreme. None of us ever had, or would ever desire, a... 
by Town Close Financial Planning | May 10, 2023 | General News
About 10 years ago, on 7 May 2013, I was elected a Fellow of the Personal Finance Society. It was a proud moment, signifying as it did a level of commitment to passing exams that surprised many, myself included. Professional exams are good at weeding...