by Town Close Financial Planning | Oct 10, 2019 | Guest Post, Investment News
There’s a lot more to successful financial planning than a whizz bang investment strategy. A whole lot more. Everything that is required can be encapsulated by one single word: BEHAVIOUR. The depth and breadth of the work required to behave in the markets is... by Town Close Financial Planning | Sep 11, 2019 | General News
If you’ve been following the advance of technology in the financial sector over the past decade, you’ve no doubt heard of blockchain, the record keeping technology which had its first real world application with Bitcoin. It is often described as a “distributed,... by Town Close Financial Planning | Sep 5, 2019 | Guest Post, Investment News
This is a good piece from Utah based IFA coach Carl Richards. What he’s highlighting is the roles our thinking and egos have when it comes to investing and how they both can mislead us. Being a real investor means doing less and ignoring your thinking. It takes... by Town Close Financial Planning | May 19, 2019 | Guest Post, Investment News
Here’s one of my favourite reads, Ben Carlson CFA, explaining how compounding works better than I could. So why try to reinvent the wheel? Especially if you’r pretty sure you’ll end up with a worse one….. “If you only followed the... by Town Close Financial Planning | Mar 5, 2019 | Investment News
Mifid II came into effect over a year ago on 3 January 2018. It’s an acronym for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive 2 and, at over 30,000 pages, it’s far from a bit of light reading. Mifid II was designed to offer more protection for investors and to inject...