What caught my eye this week. A regular listener to the ThisIsMoney podcast, I’ve been waiting for Simon Lambert and his team to get stuck into the election manifestos for three reasons. First, they’ve been trailing it for weeks and they were clearly ready to go. Second, I am as curious as any other concerned […]

I must be a masochist. Not content with the torture of bringing clarity to the labyrinthine annual allowance, I’ve now undertaken similar self-harm by tackling the lifetime allowance for pensions. I’ve given it my best shot in the post that follows. If I failed then please feel free to use it as a sleeping aid. What is […]

A Monevator reader writes: “I’m wondering if you have any general advice for someone on the edge of choosing between Vanguard’s LifeStrategy fund or going DIY (i.e. a Slow and Steady rip-off, adjusted for risk I’m comfortable with)? I’ve been going over it all for too long, devouring this site and others. I’ve also read […]

What caught my eye this week. Remember when I said I was going to simplify the compiling of my Weekend Reading links? Well this one is ridiculously long and took pretty much a day to pull together.1 Is it better for all this heft? When I first started linking to other blogs like this back […]

Achieving a big financial goal is hard. Paying off the mortgage, securing financial independence, retiring early – or at all… When a plan demands discipline over a decade or more, how do you stop yourself going off the rails? Doing it on auto-pilot is one way: you resign yourself to a multi-decade slog that becomes […]