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  December 4, 2019

  Record treasury tax yield from pension savers

  Doctors are among thousands of pension savers who have generated record payments to the taxman by breaching strict yearly limits. HMRC has announced…

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  December 4, 2019

  Taking a pragmatic approach will lead to a better investment experience

  Persistently skilled fund managers are a very rare commodity, difficult to identify in advance and hard to live with over time. Anecdotes and…

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  May 12, 2019

  Costs really do matter – why high charges can impact your investment returns

  Human beings are poorly wired to be good investors. We have many deep-seated biases and behaviours that, while once useful to survive in…

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  May 31, 2018

  How to survive the inevitable falls

  Investors have experienced very strong investment markets since the Credit Crisis a decade ago. Some may have forgotten, or never experienced, the pain…

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  April 20, 2018

  Look away from the screen

  As doctors we might prescribe a healthy dose of TLC to cure all kinds of ills but too much attention in other areas…

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  February 20, 2018

  People used to believe the world was flat

  I had the pleasure of listening to a talk from Dr Michael Mosley recently. I confess that I had seen his maverick TV…

• January 9, 2018

  How good are DIY fixes for ailments and finances?

  As the NHS creaks and groans its way through the toughest of winters with ever increasing demand, budget cuts and staff shortages, new…

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  November 7, 2017

  No room at the inn. NHS entrepreneurs meet bed-blocking

  This month’s announcement that Airbnb-style rooms would be offered to NHS patients recuperating from hospital care went down like the proverbial lead balloon.

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  October 7, 2017

  Never has so much been owed by so many to so few

  I had the honour of visiting an original MKI Hawker Hurricane recently. The plane had been shot down over Kent in 1940 and…