We are in the middle of one of the greatest sporting events on earth, the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Like many kids, I wanted to be professional footballer (as in, soccer) when I grew up – unfortunately, the real world indicated otherwise. Still, the tournament has allowed me to […]
Life & Financial Coaching
Finance
Educating Our Youth
The Wall Street Journal recently highlighted an excellent initiative by the Charles Schwab Foundation in relation to personal finance education. Below is the piece:
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, 54 years old, didn’t have a lot of money growing up. What she did have was a role model in […]
The Charm of the Lottery
There are a lot of people out there that see winning the lottery as the easy answer to their prayers. It’s the shortcut to an easy life, or so they have us believe.
For one thing, it doesn’t work out well for everyone that wins. And […]
Financial Biases You Didn’t Realise You Had
Research over the last couple of decades has shown that as much as the finance system assumes that we, as individual investors, are rational, the reality is we are certainly not. The dotcom bubble and the global financial crisis certainly reinforce the fact.
A key consideration in this […]