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Exchange Traded Funds: The simple way to invest and growth your wealth

Simple index-tracking ETFs are ideal for beginners, or for more experienced investors who want a solid “core” to their portfolio.

Venturing into the stock market? How not to get eaten alive by Gordon Gecko

That wonderful caricature of a corporate raider, Gordon Gecko, is back in cinemas with the launch of Money Never Sleeps. It’s Oliver Stone’s follow-up to his 1987 classic, Wall Street, and despite mixed reviews, Michael Douglas’ city speculator character is both mesmerising and repellent in equal measure, just as before. The original, Wall Street, was hardly [...]

The secrets of running a successful home business

Stay in your PJs, lose your emails, file your tax return late… how to learn from my mistakes working from home The secrets of business success, by Marianne Curphey People who have “proper” jobs have a funny concept of what it is like to work from home, possibly because when they do have a day [...]

4 proven ways to boost your cashflow

By Marianne Curphey When you are first setting up your own business one of the main worries is likely to be how you will fund the transition from employee to self-employed, and how to stay financially afloat. It’s a subject which cropped up in a recent teleclass with budding entrepreneurs, which I held with Marianne [...]

The key to business success is just doing it

If you want to run a successful business, or are thinking of quitting your job for a new life of independence, then start training for a marathon now. Or a Channel Swim, or a triathalon, or a 5k fun run or anything which pushes you physically and challenges you to aim for a long-term goal. [...]

Why compound interest, not diamonds, is a girl’s (or guy’s) best friend

To get out of debt and stay out of debt you need to understand how compound interest works, and how to use it to your advantage

Are you hiding in your dead zone or living in your purple patch?

Are you hiding in your dead zone or living in your purple patch? If you want to run your own business and make a success as a entrepreneur you need to ask yourself two key questions

How to dream big and find your freedom

Sometimes when you are stuck in the daily grind it can be hard to envisage a life of financial independence and personal freedom because you feel trapped.

But there is a way to free your mind and start identifying what you really want and planning your route to get there.

Financial wisdom I wish I’d known at 22

I bought my first house at 22, took out a mortgage, made my first investment in shares and started my first job. Here’s what I wish someone had told me then

How to be creative and productive at the same time

Creativity is both a blessing and a curse. It’s great to have all these wonderful, inspiring exciting ideas, but for a creative person it’s stressful not being able to schedule them all in.