Good reads from around the Web. Now that he’s just three years from financial freedom, blogger R.I.T. is rethinking how much he can withdraw from his retirement portfolio. This week he decided that for a UK investor, 3% looks much safer than the oft-quoted 4%: Staying with only UK stocks and bonds in your portfolio […]

Though it might not always feel like it, you have one big advantage over City fund managers. True, they have the training, best research, computers and analysts. But they’re also judged daily by their bosses and their clients, and woe betide any manager who starts to lag their peers or the market. A mere 6-12 […]

Few among us live blameless lives. We may desire to be good and rational investors, but who here can truly say that he or she is perfect? Who has not succumbed to the temptation to take a shortcut or three in pursuit of higher returns, or an easier life, or because you know – you […]

Good reads from around the Web. I really liked this extended metaphor of the stock market as a forest, from Nate at Oddball Stocks: I want you to think of the market as a forest.  A healthy forest is filled with a variety of trees and plants.  There are tall trees, short trees, pine trees, […]

Most people know their height, their shoe size – to be frank, most men spent a furtive teenage moment measuring their intimate details with a ruler. An awful lot of us though have no idea where the different tax brackets start and end, nor where our income sits within them. I find that pretty ironic […]