Investments are intended to provide security. They provide security of income, security of shelter and care in your final years. However, sometimes you need to provide security for your investments. In this …
How to Get Rich Quick
This article is a down-to-earth guide on how to get rich quick. Ambitious but realistic. This is an impartial article that won’t recommend you sign-up for a course or buy …
Why Investing is More Fun than Gambling at a Casino
In our article ‘how to invest in shares’, I’ve written about why investing isn’t the same thing as gambling. I draw attention to the ‘house advantage’ enjoyed by casinos and …
Why Don’t Brits Invest like Americans?
It’s fair to say that the US is home to one of the most investment-savvy populations on the planet. It’s also fair to admit that Britain is a little different. …
What Would a Future Proof Portfolio Look Like?
In this article we’ll look at the latest long term trends in demographics, economics and technology to answer the question – what would a future proof portfolio look like? Future-proofing …
What Does It Mean To Be Rich?
Books about getting rich seem to fly off the shelves of Waterstone shops up and down the country every day. Investing blogs like Financial Expert attract a loyal audience of …
Is Investing Gambling? Both Sides of the Debate
Investing is occasionally referred to as gambling. A Google search for ‘stock market’ and ‘casino’ yields over 51,000,000 results. We’ll present the arguments on both sides of the question ‘is …
Memestocks & Madness – 2021 Stock Market Update (May)
We thought we’d write a brief article today on 2 June 2021 to address the pattern of panic and plunder we have witnessed in the financial markets lately. If you …
The Most Popular Articles on Financial Expert
This month, Financial Expert is celebrating a year since its July 2019 refresh. The result was a total transformation of the site from a simple investing blog, to an investment …
My Portfolio: Calculating my Expected Return
A rare advantage that bank account savers enjoy over investors is that they can save with certainty. When they move their cash to a higher-performing account, they can easily measure …
My Portfolio: What Have I Invested In?
Selecting investments has to be the most time-consuming aspect of building an investment portfolio for the first time. In the first My Portfolio article, I showed how I allocated my …
My Portfolio: How I Designed My Own Asset Allocation
The free investing courses on Financial Expert cover a lot of theory about the steps you should take when creating a portfolio of your own. But when learning any rules …
Becoming the Bank for Mum and Dad
The natural order of things suggests that your parents look after you, financially as well as physically, before they set you on the road to independence. Parents teach you the …
Bolstering your Finances after the Unexpected
If you ask a financial advisor about which element personal finances the public neglects most, the answer you would hear is “protection”. “Protection” is CFA speak for ‘insurance’, and boy …
Who is the Best Financial Guru?
This article will help you discover who is the best financial guru. I’ll begin by explaining what a financial guru is. Next, I’ll highlight five excellent sources of financial wisdom …
What is a Rentier? And why you’ll love being one
You wake in the morning and take the time to cook yourself a proper breakfast. You turn on your laptop and have a glance at the financial markets. Stocks and …
The Gold Fish Dilemma – Why It’s Impossible to Spot a Successful Fund Manager
In my article Passive funds versus active funds, I explain that the majority of active funds underperform the market. This news might feel very counterintuitive. I was certainly shocked when …