Weekend reading: you can bank on this
What caught my eye this week. Long-time readers will know that bankers are not good with money. They love to…
Monzo investments: what’s on offer, is it any good?
Digital bank Monzo is rolling out Monzo Investments – a new investing service that’s handled in-app, right alongside the rest…
Weekend reading: don’t care permabears
What caught my eye this week. The first time you hear a permabear warning of an imminent stock market meltdown…
FIRE-side chat: investing to go
In this latest instalment of our regular series we meet a reader who made themselves effectively financially independent in some…
Best bond funds and bond ETFs
How do you choose the best bond funds or bond ETFs from the bewildering array of products available? Many investors…
Benjamin Graham on bear markets
Any naughty active investor who hasn’t yet read The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham should probably put down this blog…
Weekend reading: recovering from regrets
What caught my eye this week. A couple of weeks ago Nick Maggiulli of Dollars and Data fame conceded that…
Maximising FSCS protection for your investment portfolio
A little-known fact is that most investment types are not protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS). Yes, your…
Weekend reading: if you could take one asset class into the shower
What caught my eye this week. Morning all. I’ve got to admit that after writing 5,788 words for this month’s…
How to work out your own financial independence plan
So you want to be financially independent (FI)? I don’t blame you. And I know you can do it! I…
Weekend reading: is UK property cheap or is it expensive? It depends which UK…
What caught my eye this week. Perhaps the most fanciful of the many ultimately costly reasons I found for not buying…
The investor sentiment cycle
There is something that fluctuates even more than the stock market in investing – and that’s investor sentiment. Indeed once…
Where to invest a low amount of money UK
Are you wondering where you can invest a low amount of money in the UK? When money is rarer than…
FSCS investment protection: are you covered by the investor compensation scheme?
Like all financial services, investing attracts its unfair share of bad actors and inept shysters. So it’s comforting to think…
Weekend reading: not a prayer for serenity
What caught my eye this week. You know those movies that you’ve seen half a dozen times – Raiders of…
Cash and bonds are different investments
A mistake even experienced investors make is to think of bonds and cash as identical. Bonds are not the same…
Weekend reading: Mission impossible for active managers
What caught my eye this week. I haven’t written much about the Financial Conduct Authority’s new-ish Consumer Duty standard, beyond…
FIRE-side chat: coasting it
Hurrah! We’ve persuaded another Monevator reader to pull up a pew and tell us their strategy for financial independence (FIRE).…
Our updated guide to help you find the best online broker
Attention UK investors! You know how we created that massive broker comparison table? Well we’ve gone back to the coalface…
Weekend reading: shuffle bored employees stay put
What caught my eye this week. According to the BBC, the Great Resignation in the US is ‘over’: Since the…
Investment portfolio examples: asset allocation models for beginners
Sometimes you just need a little bit of inspiration. A template that you can adapt and make your own. That’s…
Weekend reading: Inhuman investors
What caught my eye this week. The 1970s were a legendarily tough decade – for investors, for the UK economy,…
Leveraged ETFs for the long run*
Let’s be clear: leveraged ETFs are hyper-controversial and not well understood. Nevertheless, in forthcoming articles from the Finumus camp about…
Which commodities ETF?
For the final installment of Monevator’s commodities series, I’m going to walk you through my ETF pick for actually investing…
Weekend reading: basic Britain
What caught my eye this week. You won’t find anything more ridiculous, than this new profile Razor unit, made with…
Old dog, old tricks
Where were you on 9/11? Do you remember when you first heard that Princess Diana had died? What about when…
Best global tracker funds – how to choose
A global tracker fund takes care of all your equity diversification needs in a single investment product. In this post,…
Weekend reading: spelling be
What caught my eye this week. Technology marches on. I almost got knocked over by a stealthy Tesla this morning.…
Why there is no comparison of rates of interest on cash in investment accounts in our broker table
For a long time we couldn’t compare the rates of interest on cash in investment accounts for one simple reason.…
How well do commodities hedge against UK inflation?
Broad commodities is often cited as one of the few asset classes that’s a useful inflation hedge. Raw material costs…