by Maria Nedeva | 31 Aug, 2016 | Invest for the future, Investing for all
‘But isn’t this too risky? Why didn’t you put this money in index funds or something?’ This is what my friend Tom said after I told him that we bought 50% of a MOT and motor service garage. (Before I go any further, I’d like to explain for the benefit of my readers...
by Maria Nedeva | 1 Jul, 2016 | Invest for the future, Investing for all, Investments
Investment – it’s a man’s world, right? Women are happy to have savings accounts, but when it comes to stocks, shares and other investments, it’s the men who get results, not women. Thankfully, that previous statement is a complete mythology. There’s no evidence to...
by Maria Nedeva | 29 Apr, 2016 | Invest for the future, Pensions
Saving for retirement has not been on my mind recently. I used to worry about saving for retirement in my 20s. Started saving for retirement, through the extremely beneficial pension scheme of UK universities that has just been changed, in my 30s. In my 40s I worried...
by Maria Nedeva | 2 Feb, 2016 | Invest for the future, Investing for all, Investments
Yesterday I opened my Nutmeg account (for my readers in the US, Nutmeg is the UK ‘sister’ of Betterment) and the first thing I saw was a message saying: I’m in for the long run: history tells us that savvy investors stand firm when markets are choppy! The next...
by Maria Nedeva | 25 Nov, 2014 | Invest for the future, Investing for all, Investments
For years I passed people’s houses and looked with envy at their roofs. Okay, not any old roof; I looked at the ones that had nice, shiny solar panels on them. Usually I’m not a jealous person. I look at someone who’s ‘made it’ and I think that there is an...
by Maria Nedeva | 16 Oct, 2014 | Financial Health, Invest for the future, Pensions
Do you worry about your retirement? I do. And everyone I talk to lately seem to worry about retirement as well. My colleagues worry. My friends worry. My PhD students worry. My sons (the grown up ones) worry. Frankly, in the world we live in, one will be rather silly...
