Weekly Columns
Personal finance is something which we all have to deal with in order to get the best out of our money. We work hard enough for it so it is important to be clued in to what we should be doing and what we should not be doing.
For over 20 years, the below personal finance columns, which are written by our CEO, and published in several newspapers, have helped guide people on their financial journey.
For all media enquiries please contact our Communications Director, Eleanor McGillie, on emcgillie@wwfp.net
What is financial planning, financial kindness and what are the ‘Human Givens’
- Peter McGahan
- WHAT is financial planning and what needs are we really meeting? For all our ...
Cryptic crypto and FTX
- Peter McGahan
- BACK in 2017, when asked about crypto currency, I gave my honest answers in ...
Is it really a mortgage panic and housing crash?
- Peter McGahan
- IN 35 years of financial services, much is like the yogi-ism from Yogi Berra ...
National pension (cauliflower) tracing day
- Peter McGahan
- It was ‘National pension tracing day’ (who thinks these up) last week, which I ...
Pensions, mortgages and The Muppet Show. What’s going on?
- Peter McGahan
- PENSION funds are supposed to be safe, boring and forgettable. As are government bonds. ...
Assessing your money’s potential for loss
- Peter McGahan
- LAST week we covered concentration risk with your investments. To summarise, it’s when you spread ...
De-worsification – and swimming in the nip
- Peter McGahan
- YOU will have heard the investment terms: ‘not having all your eggs in one ...
You’ll be just fine…
- Peter McGahan
- AS fancy as financial advice can be, some of the very basic requirements can ...
Inflation and the six-million-dollar man
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