where eagles fear to perch

Calculating portfolio returns has been a hot, or at least a warm, topic on the FI blogs recently, in particular with regard to accounting fo...

A High Yield Portfolio (HYP) seems to me a harmless and generic name for any group of investments cobbled together in an attempt to bring ...

These days, I'm becoming increasingly uncomfortable with holding large chunks of  individual company shares, preferring instead to sprea...

And so this is Christmas, and how have we done ?   Firstly, the combined portfolio spreadsheet updated on Monday 31 December 2018.

So where did all the money go in 2018 ?  Here's our regular end-of-year review. click on the graphic for a larger image ...

Following on from my post in September about building the pergolas , for a while afterwards I was thinking that the larger one to the side o...

I mentioned this subject in a post a few years back, but inspired (!) by the recent decision by NS&I to tie future index-linked certific...