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1 May 2024
Practice development
Breaking down the barriers to healthy money habits
Behavioural economics has become popular in recent years as a way of explaining why people don’t act in logical and rational ways. But to me, the obvious is question is, why did we ever think that…
30 April 2024
Industry
Life after cash and investing at all-time highs
Many investors will be worried about current volatility, with cash rates peaking and markets at all-time highs. So we did some interesting analysis at Schroders that asks what happens when the Fed…
29 April 2024
Practice development
Why elevator pitches don’t work
It might sound as if I’m in a grumpy mood, but what prompted me to write this piece was reading an article published by work management platform Asana. It said: “A good elevator pitch can be the…
23 April 2024
Industry
The shared appreciation mortgage bombshell
It’s equity release that’s keeping me busy these days. Conceptually, I can see why people might do it - it’s a way of accessing your home’s value without selling and downsizing, albeit a very…
