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Coping with the Rising Cost of Living in 2022

We are now about a third of the way into 2022 and inflation has just hit 7%, interest rates are 0.75%; petrol is £1.68 and a lot of people have received notification of what the increases in their new utility bills are going to be, and have gone into panic mode. It is not

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Price vs Value

We usually know the price of most things, but actual value is sometimes difficult to calculate. Is it the same for Investments?

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How a Passport Can Teach You To Manage Money

Lots of things can seem to make little sense until we look into things further, why is that important in Financial Planning?

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99.9% The Same

Have you ever wondered why other people have better or worse lives than you, or what you need to do, or are doing differently and why? It’s fairly well known that we are not the people we used to be and I mean that quite literally. We shed our skin over roughly 27 days and

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Theory X and Y

Theory X and Y - featured in the Hunts Post on 26.01.22 Anyone who has read or listened to anything about the brain would have heard about the part of the brain called the “amygdala”. Which are basically two sets of cells located either side of the brain that help define and regulate our emotions.

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Carpe Diem

Life can be cruel and major life and death events can come out of nowhere to change both, the way we see the world and the part we wish to take within it. In the last couple of months I have had a client fall ill unexpectedly and die quickly, leaving a loved one who

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The Recipe for Planning

To produce the best cake, dinner or sweet you need a mix of ingredients in the right amount, with the right individual attention given to each. A recipe for planning would include taking care of the essentials to protect the livelihood of you or your loved ones, be that life insurance, critical illness, income protection,

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Are you a Potato or an Egg?

At boiling point one goes soft, the other hard. Under the same circumstances different people act in different ways, which is why the world is made up of different people. This all starts with the “fight or flight” syndrome that existed in cavemen. Which reminds me of the story of two men being chased by

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The Importance of You

An individual’s wealth usually increases over the decades and most people hope to have something to pass on to the next generation. This normally happens on death, but because people are now living longer, this means an inheritance is often received after the time when it would be of most use. The worry is that

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