Tag Archives: investing

Why carpe diem beats carpe tomorrow

Time and money – when is the best time to invest in the stock market? All of my missions as set out in my book, 10 Things Everyone Needs to Know About Money, and elsewhere in blog posts, is to persuade people to put some of their savings into long-term stock market investments. Then peopleContinue reading “Why carpe diem beats carpe tomorrow”

Why it pays to invest in the stock market.

Get into your time machine, travel back and ask your great-great grandmother to invest for you. According to the Credit Suisse Global Investment Returns Yearbook, if your great-great-grandmother had invested one dollar in the US stock market in 1900, that would be worth just under $70,000 by the end of 2019, or $40,000 if youContinue reading “Why it pays to invest in the stock market.”

Time and money – the secrets of Robinson Crusoe investing

In earlier posts in my time and money series I talk about investing in the stock market for the long-term, ideally for over 10 years but certainly for over 5 years so that you can ride out gyrations in the markets and allow the magic of compounding to work. Stick your investment away, select automaticContinue reading “Time and money – the secrets of Robinson Crusoe investing”

Investing and survivor bias

Money, time, investing and survivor bias. What time travel could teach us. Imagine you’d bought Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google in the early days and avoided all the duds that have failed… You might develop a distorted view of your own brilliance. You might have survivor bias. How to counteract survivor bias in investing. #10ThingsMoney

Money and time

What would you pack in your time machine to travel back and also possibly forward in time? In the UK, 97% of our money exists only as squiggles on a computer screen. Governments effectively wave the magic wand of belief to give value to otherwise worthless pieces of paper and metal, and in another stepContinue reading “Money and time”