The child – and her ‘trust fund’ – grow up

I suppose you could say it was inevitable. And this month it happened. The first of our children ceased to be a child. And along with the sanctioned alcoholic bubbles (plus the reluctant acceptance that, this year, there would be no party) came the arrival of The Letter.

 

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Bonding with uncertainty

Craving a bit of day-to-day uncertainty, Carole weighs up the frisson of a potential premium bond win against the certainty of a miserly fixed rate… (more…)

Will you behave: Confirmation Bias and Financial Abuse

 

Number two in the series on Investing Biases: Carole notices that she is noticing things differently since taking a course on financial abuse and is on the look out for Confirmation Bias – something that investors can also fall prey to… (more…)

Will you behave: Overconfidence Bias in investors

Number one in the series on Investing Biases: Carole proposes a look at some of the behaviours that can trip an investor up and starts by questioning whether the Overconfidence Bias is itself suffering from a male bias… (more…)