What caught my eye this week. This year has already had more groundhog days than a count among my peers of the top five Bill Murray movies of all-time – but the last few days have really ladled it on. It was all so six months ago! Johnson at the dispatch box like a kabuki […]

This is part six of a series on how to maximise your ISAs and SIPPs to achieve financial independence (FI). I put this series on hold when coronavirus gripped the world but it doesn’t look like the pandemic is disappearing any time soon. Life marches on so let’s pick up where we left off. Where […]

What caught my eye this week. I read this week of a successful US hedge fund that’s closing down because it finds the work too onerous. “Soul sapping” in its own words. It wasn’t the challenge of hunting for good investment ideas that did for the Echo Street’s hedge fund, apparently. That was “joyful”, it […]

I hit my number. I hit my number. Sweet Holy Jesus, I hit my number! [Falls to the floor and sobs with joy]. Okay, these aren’t quite the scenes at Accumulator HQ – because I’m an emotional pygmy. But I have hit my number… and I don’t really know how to feel. I actually hit […]

What caught my eye this week. You know the big things you grapple with as a kid – where does space end, what happened to your hamster when he went to sleep and never woke up, and why would anyone ever kiss anyone ever EVER yuck? Well I find the graph below from asset manager […]