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It’s Halloween, a time for witches, ghosts and ghouls although most of us are way past the stage of finding Halloween scary. If only we could say the same about financial fears. Far too many people are frightened by their finances, spooked by their spending or petrified of their pension. Being haunted by financial fears…
Do you consider yourself to be rich? Most of you would answer no to that question. You probably live in a fairly average house, drive a pretty normal car and have to save up for holidays, luxuries and your child’s university education. Your life is a world away from the flashy car, blingy mansion and…
Aside from a few hard-core climate deniers, most of us have woken up in recent years to the fact that we are irreparably damaging our planet and need to do something about it fast. Evidence of climate change is all around us, especially here in Asia. Back in 2014 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…
29th September is World Heart Day which aims to spread awareness about cardiovascular disease (CVD), the world’s number one killer. CVD, which includes heart disease and stroke, claims an astounding 17.9mn lives a year so anything we can do to prevent and control it has got to be a good thing, right? The World Heart…
Whoever you are and whatever you do, financial literacy is a critical life skill. All of us need to know the money management basics such as how debt works, why it’s a bad idea to go on a spending spree with a credit card, how to budget within our means each month, the importance of…
For many people, the thought of protecting their wealth is a luxury. It isn’t easy to think about saving for retirement when you’re barely making it from paycheck to paycheck. However, this can end up being a costly mistake. In your lifetime, there may be an event that could wipe out all your money and…
We are in the midst of a data and technology revolution and the financial services industry will need to evolve fast to deal with the issues that arise from that including the emergence of Fintech and technology-enabled platforms, how data is used, the increasing demand for digital products and cyber security. The evolution will inevitably…
Whichever side of the Brexit debate you sit on, you have to admit it has a lot to answer for. You don’t have to look far for nightmarish headlines regarding the damage already done and future threats: UK loses £900bn as Brexit damage to city worse than expected Brexit causes UK car industry investment to…
It’s no exaggeration to say that the pound has been ravaged by Brexit. On the fateful night of 23rd June 2016, when it was announced that the UK had voted to leave the EU, sterling plummeted by 11% in a ‘flash crash’ the likes of which are extremely rare. Since then there have been ups…
Brexit and the trade war between China and the US continue to be the major events impacting the markets and with both mired in uncertainty August could be summed up by the word volatility. The US-China trade war has descended to the level of retaliatory playground games albeit with high stakes. Trump ratcheted up tariffs,…