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How to create an Investment Policy Statement

May 17, 2022

My last post was all about why you should consider crafting an Investment Policy Statement (IPS). Here, I’ll show you how to create an IPS,

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Why you need an Investment Policy Statement

May 10, 2022

People have been creating investment plans for a long time. It looks like the first on record dates back roughly 4,000 years ago, and was

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How to fail at investing

May 3, 2022

There are an almost infinite number of ways to succeed at investing. If success is ending up with a portfolio large enough to meet your

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How many ISAs can I have?

April 26, 2022

I tend to receive a smattering of ISA questions throughout the year, then a deluge of them leading up to the tax year-end in April.

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Who wants to be an ISA millionaire?

April 20, 2022

With the ISA deadline having just passed, I’ve been getting more than a few ISA-related questions coming into my inbox. So I thought I’d put

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Size matters: how small is too small?

April 13, 2022

In my free time, I like to kick back and relax by reading books with titles like ‘All about Asset Allocation’ and ‘The Intelligent Asset

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Should you invest in corporate bonds?

April 6, 2022

When I began my investing career, I was pretty ambivalent towards the use of corporate bonds in portfolios. They seemed like the investing equivalent of

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Average UK savings by age

March 30, 2022

This post explores the average UK savings by age groups. It also looks at the average amounts in UK pension accounts, and the average UK

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Should you use duration matching?

March 23, 2022

We’ve made it! This is the final post in the series on duration matching. Before we conclude, let me explain what we’ve seen so far.

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Against duration matching

March 16, 2022

This is the fourth post in a series on duration matching. The first post covered an introduction to duration, what duration matching is, and why

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Duration matching in practice

March 9, 2022

This is the third post in a series on duration matching. The first post covered an introduction to duration, what duration matching is, and why

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Why you should own long-term bonds

March 2, 2022

This is the second post in a series on duration matching. The first post covered an introduction to duration, what duration matching is, and why

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Duration matching: an introduction

February 23, 2022

Much of what I remember from my investment exams is now occluded by the mists of time. Just like all other exams, you remember the

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Average pension pots [UK]

February 16, 2022

Every now and then it’s interesting to see where the UK’s at with its finances. So I thought I’d use this week’s post to see

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Return expectations: 2022 edition

February 9, 2022

How much can you expect to make on your investments over the next 10 years? Just like last year’s edition, this post aims to answer

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