by Town Close Financial Planning | Jun 2, 2023 | Investment News
You’d be forgiven for thinking that successful investing is a dark art. Reserved only for those with a certain genius, pHd. To consistently produce an investment return that beats inflation (after costs) over the longer term seems otherworldly and beyond the... 
by Town Close Financial Planning | May 29, 2023 | Investment News, Savings News
Life is about comparisons, we often need to choose one thing over the other. Therefore comparisons ought to be on a like for like basis – apples to apples, not apples to lemons. When a client compares bank interest to investment returns, important points must be... 
by Town Close Financial Planning | May 28, 2023 | General News
Three articles worth your attention: Seth Godin – Cultural Distress: Your emotions are always being played by others. Simply recognising that is the first step to freedom? Ben Carlson – Stock, Bond & Cash Returns Over the Past 95 Years: It’s... 
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...