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SoundFinancial

  1. Paul latest #pension blog bit.ly/JBR1Px
  2. A great Golf day on Friday - thanks to all who attended on behalf of the Afghanistan Trust - supporting the Paras & their families
  3. Hold that last email, I've now had two PPI claim emails in the last 10 minutes, so all back to normal.
  4. What's going on, its 8am and I haven't had any emails asking me if I've been missold PPI?
  5. What a joke organisation the FA is. They upheld the red card for Shaun Derry do they really think that was a foul? Corrupt and out of date.
  6. bit.ly/HxUpsS latest Pension Planning blog. Let us know your thoughts...
  7. There will be, and always has been, a shortage of good quality financial planning advice, so please feel free to panic buy...
  8. Thanks for all the positive feedback following our seminar last Thursday - Dennis Turner was excellent and a good time was had by all!
  9. Thanks FSA our Compensation Levy costs have risen by 55% in one year! Glad to be contributing for those who don't know what they're doing
  10. bit.ly/xYnpui Paul's latest blog considering the effects of the impending Budget
  11. Good to see the successful investment mantra of warren buffett in the financial press - patience & discipline - not common traits these days
  12. This is apparently my 100th tweet! (waves to crowd, lifts bat aloft and removes cap...)
  13. Happy 3rd anniversary to 0.5% base rates! For those with mortgages long may they continue.
  14. Not the best news for a Monday morning with mortgage rates going up - savings rate to follow? Don't hold your breath!
  15. bit.ly/zylM9l latest blog about the Effects of Quantative Easing on Pensions. Let us know your views...
  16. Good news re UK inflation falling to 4.2% (CPI) and if all forecasts are correct then further falls are likely.
  17. bit.ly/yp5ZPl Pauls latest blog asking what makes us happy?
  18. Paul's first blog of the year. Let us know your thoughts ... bit.ly/xKwlrB
  19. Yes of course 38% of aboslute return funds produced positive returns, but could you have picked then in advance?
  20. So more than 60% of absolute return funds produced negative returns in 2011. What happened to the new investment nirvana?