How many bank accounts does a bird’s business need?
Banks love to cosy up to us when business is going well and the cash is rolling in. When times are booming, they offer us favourable loans, pension plans, investments, and all manner of services which we may or may not need. But the minute your business takes a nose-dive and you need the bank [...]
Wanted: Financial Adviser. Must have Morals.
When was the last time you leaped out of bed filled with joy at the thought of going out to find a Financial Adviser? Never? Surely not….. So now we’ve established that most of us would rather go for root canal work than find an adviser, when the moment is upon us and we can’t [...]
“We let it slip”
“We let it slip” Image by howzey via Flickr Mervyn King is apparently only the second governor of the Bank of England ever to address the TUC in its 142 year history. Well that’s nice. He even started with a wee bit of humility and a grudging acceptance that he and his cronies at the [...]
I thought you had to be rich to have a financial adviser?
We had a friend staying last weekend. I’d just got back from a 2 day conference and was engaged in a rant about the forthcoming Pension “Reform” (this will be the subject of a future blog but it’s currently in its 84th edit and I can’t seem to make it any less ranty) whilst glugging [...]
Banking on Women?
Are women-only banks an empowering move, segregation or bank saviours? As over half of banks’ worldwide clients are female, no wonder that many international banks have turned their focus on this lucrative market, claiming that women have been marginalised for long enough and it is time to recognise women’s role in the economy. But is [...]
All that jazz – All in A Day
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
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