FINANCE WITHOUT THE NONSENSE
How much do you know about personal finance? Not sure? Then have a crack at this short financial literacy quiz and find out right now! Financial literacy or even basic finance is not really taught in most schools generally, so it’s not really any surprise that many people leave the education system with barely even a basic understanding of simple investing and financial planning concepts, such as inflation, risk and …
Those pesky financial advisers will often throw around terminology that they perceive to be universally understood, when in actual fact, the words they use can be quite industry-specific and not as familiar to the client as the adviser may assume. You know I like to keep things as simple and as no-nonsense as possible, so here are six commonly-used terms broken down for you. This time we’re looking at: Money …
For the newbie investor, the language used by finance people can be bewildering and quite intimidating at times, but the concepts behind the “foreign language” are usually fairly simple – at least, most of the time, anyway! My No Nonsense Guide To Finance series of posts aims to simplify a lot of the terminology you are likely to encounter if you enter the world of financial planning and investing. Being …
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. And as I am sure you’ll agree, the world of finance certainly does its fair share of adding to the complexity! So, I always like to break down the terminology used by finance bods into language that actually means something to the rest of us. In this post, we’re looking at building a portfolio and some of the terms …