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It has been a rollercoaster few weeks on the stock market. ‍A dramatic plunge was followed by a strong rebound, resulting in one of the best weeks of 2024 so far. ‍But this turmoil has left many of you wondering: “are markets more volatile at the moment?” 

This month, we return to the second part of David Brooks' powerful metaphor of climbing two mountains in life. Now that you’ve had time to reflect, have you started envisioning what your second mountain might look like? ‍What passions, causes, or people are calling you to make a meaningful impact?

As a financial planner, I've observed the financial journeys of many clients. But there comes a moment when the focus shifts and they start to ask themselves different questions.

Summer holidays are a time to unwind and recharge, but they also present an excellent opportunity to review and improve your financial plans.

Like anything in life, work can be addictive. The level of intensity in some jobs is hard to replace. But which is best a career that is fast and full-on? Or one that is steady and consistent?

With the election campaigning ramping up, I have been thinking about how the result might affect the stock market.

What exactly is GDP? It’s been a long time since I studied Economics yet I still recall the concept well.

Even the world’s greatest investors have succumbed to our tendency to favour recent events over historic ones, also known as recency bias. This behaviour often influences others to do the same, as we are only human, after all.

Regardless of how we ponder time—narrated through personal stories, theoretically, through a child’s eye or literary rhetoric—it remains one constant that never changes. But our perceptions and ideas certainly can and do change, especially when it comes to the relationship between time and money.