Author: Michael Taylor

Knowing if a share is expensive or cheap is a useful skill. We wouldn’t pay £350 for a TV when everywhere else it’s sold for £300, would we? Likewise, when we buy a house, we

You may have heard the saying “revenue is vanity, profit is sanity, cash is reality”. That’s because revenue matters not a jot if a company isn’t making any profit. But profit also is meaningless if

A Self-Invested Personal Pension (SIPP) is a type of pension for people that are both happy and comfortable in making their own investment decisions. One advantage of a SIPP is that we have full control

The financial statements are very often overlooked by most private investors at their peril. We would not buy a house before viewing it, checking for damp, and making sure it is structurally sound. Stock market

The time value of money is used to move capital through various accounting periods and define its true present value. In this article we sill learn what the time value of money is, why and

Unfortunately, like any industry, there are always snake oil salesman and even fraudsters. The trading and investing world is no different, with many ‘traders’ and educational providers out there claiming to teach people to make

When buying shares we can get exposure to lots of different markets and industries, and this is one of the great advantages of being our own stock pickers. Managing our own portfolios offers us substantially

The financial statements are very often overlooked by most private investors at their peril. We would not buy a house before viewing it, checking for damp, and making sure it is structurally sound. Stock market

Why should I invest in stocks and shares? Investing in stocks and shares has been historically proven to build wealth and help people become rich. Many people mistakenly believe that they can grow rich by