I mentioned in my last blog entry how I believe that the worlds finest financial planning book was written by one of the greatest children’s author ever….Dr Suess (you can read the previous entry here) and what I’m going to do over the course of the next few blog entries is explain why “Oh! The […]
There’s some great books focused on the importance of financial planning. But weirdly my favourite book on Financial Planning (money book) wasn’t written by a financial planner. It wasn’t written by an investment expert. It wasn’t written by a business specialist. It contains no mention of money, cashflow, budget planning, income, expenditure, assets or liabilities. […]
At the risk of sounding like a broken record I want to repeat something I’ve said before.. One of the keys to complying with auto enrolment is ensuring that the business who needs to comply has the right systems in place. To a large degree we’re finding that helping an employer comply with auto enrolment […]
I’m a bit of a political geek! I never miss a Question Time. I watch “The daily politics” on demand, stay up late on election night to wait for the results to come in and even during my trip to Edinburgh Festival this year one of my festival show choices was @Mattforde ‘s brilliant show (where […]
Yesterday (and I write this on the 20th of September 2013) the office of fair trading announced some new proposals on how individuals saving for their future financial security and using pensions to do so can be treated in a fairer way. It’s never been more important time for the Office of Fair Trading to […]
Most people know what Arachnophobia is (if you don’t it’s the fear of spiders), but how about Coulrophobia, Trypophonia or Gamophobia? The fear of Clowns, Holes and marriage (the three fears I mentioned above) are all to one degree or another mostly irrational. However this doesn’t change the fact that for the individuals involved these […]
Whilst many business owners (and the professionals who advise them) are now coming to realise that they need to prepare (or help to prepare) for auto enrolment their is an aspect of the quasi compulsion which isn’t often explored. Both employers and professionals have been working hard on the practicalities of auto enrolment…and rightfully so. […]
I wrote an article recently on three of the biggest misconceptions relating to auto enrolment which received some really nice feedback via email, twitter, linkedin and the odd phone call. Firstly if you read the article, liked it and either sent me a tweet, or an email or a linkedin message or taking the time […]
When I first started Principal Financial, and being new to the world of business ownership, I decided that I needed to go and get some help in understanding what I needed to do to ensure my business was successful. Over the last few years I’ve found out that learning about running a business is very […]
Judging by the amount of calls I’ve taken on auto enrolment over the last week it seems that slowly but surely both businesses, fellow financial planners and the accountancy and legal community have started to realise something. Auto enrolment isn’t going away and it’s a challenge, both as professionals and business owners we all need […]