by Town Close Financial Planning | Apr 2, 2024 | financial planning, General News
2024 marks 30 years of me working in financial services, I started as a Trainee Broker Consultant at the Croydon branch of Scottish Equitable in October 1994. What lessons have I learned? More than I can remember, but below are 30 that came to me when I gave it... 
by Town Close Financial Planning | Mar 24, 2024 | General News
I was walking Frankie in a rectangular field the other day, where many others walk. A clear path has formed what I noticed is that it does not go into the corners – all the corners are cut. Cutting corners comes easily to us, but it’s not always to our benefit, for... 
by Town Close Financial Planning | Mar 16, 2024 | General News
Does our voting system work? Are the right people governing us? Or are they simply as collection of unemployable chancers? Has it always been so? Are these outcomes acceptable in any way at all? https://www.visualcapitalist.com/youth-unemployment-in-oecd-and-china/ or... 
by Town Close Financial Planning | Mar 6, 2024 | Investment News
As Massive Attack advised us in 1991 with the “Hymn Of The Big Wheel”, the big wheel keeps on turning. After two years of investment malaise from December 2021 until November 2023 equity markets have picked up considerably and returned something like 15% these last... by Town Close Financial Planning | Mar 5, 2024 | Investment News
The TCFP investment committee met on 5 March to discuss the current economic, political and investment environment. As a result the TCFP Model Portfolio remains unchanged. Here are brief notes of our discussion: Politics The big news for 2024 is that half the...