Our Blog

Rich people are good with money and poor people are bad with money. That’s what some people assume, anyway....

Cast your mind back to 2002. If you had a Nokia 3310, a first generation iPod and an extensive DVD collection, you had it all.

In December 2025, I’m considering taking part in the “world’s toughest endurance race”. More on that in future blogs. But before anything could happen, I had to address a pretty major problem.

When one of my clients announced they wanted to retire at 55, my main concern was how they’d fill all their spare time once they’d left the workforce. 

2022 has been a whirlwind. After two years of having our lives turned upside down by Covid-19, it's almost a relief to go back to the usual pre-March 2020 worries.

Whenever I think about cryptocurrency, I think about sitting exams as a teenager.

According to Rightmove, the average purchase price in Birmingham is now £257,000 and the average deposit is around £39,000. When you consider the average graduate salary is £32,000, it's easy to see why so many young people are struggling to buy. 

For decades, people have been fed a series of untruths about how financial markets work in search of quick and short-term sales. But investing isn’t as complicated as it seems.

I have two boys, Otto Barnaby and Charlie Cecil, and it’s wonderful to see them grow and develop over time.