Worldwide Financial Planning

This week has been broadly positive, with a lull in the news cycle has allowed the market to catch its breathe.

Ongoing trade talks between the US and China are being viewed positively, although there is no guarantee they'll produce anything concrete.

We had looked at expenses and life insurance but didn’t touch on one point relating to their costs.

This week the markets have started the New Year as they ended the old one, with some wild price swings.

After a December that blew apart the Santa Rally story by posting the worst returns of the year for the first time, and in doing so ending a reliable east week before Christmas story topic for journalists (and analysts) everywhere, we're now watching for the demise of the January effect.

This week we got a timely reminder of what really matters as stocks tumbled on the back of the latest Fed rate hike.

As with most matters, being in control is much less stressful than being reactionary.

But what can we learn from 2018, and what New Year resolutions can we practically deal with as we move forward?