Should you buy your first home or invest in a pension?
On paper, the earlier an individual starts contributing to a pension, the better. It allows more time for compounding to…
7 years ago
Economics & Markets
Mellon on the Markets
I’m on an Emirates A380 over the island of Goa, en route to Dubai from Melbourne. For the past ten…
7 years ago
I never thought I’d live to be a hundred
I appreciate that for most of us financial planning is like watching paint dry. And after all there’s plenty of…
7 years ago
4 US real estate hot spots
Many British investors are buying property – sorry, real estate – in America. Houses and apartments in the Land of…
7 years ago
The 1930s: a warning from history
If what you were ‘taught’ about the Great Depression is anything like my school time experience, it will go something…
7 years ago
The US Markets – Trick or Treat?
As Hallowe’en approaches, Americans are tricking and treating. But what is the US stock market doing? The smiling economists of…
7 years ago
How to invest in an age of longevity
So people are going to live longer. And old age will not necessarily mean infirmity. The demographics are already changing…
7 years ago
Europe on the brink
The Brexit talks will run into the sand soon. That may be a problem for Britain. But, for Europe, Brexit…
7 years ago
Mellon on the Markets
What to write about this month? Victor Hill has already – and brilliantly – covered Catalonia, and I have banged…
7 years ago
Catalonia dreaming…
What happens in Catalonia this Sunday could, even more than Brexit, cause massive headaches in Brussels… 2014 reimagined… Imagine, if…
7 years ago