Worldwide Financial Planning

Deciding to book a flight in a foreign currency? Watch out for a few tricks. I’m often offered the ‘guaranteed rate’ by the vendor. Guaranteed very expensive perhaps, but not guaranteed fair.

This week we've seen a significant jump in the oil price, no doubt to accommodate the production of souvenir plates and tabloid pull outs for the royal wedding.

There is significant difference in the returns that funds are actually returning. Consider a study of 60 with-profit funds by Barnett Waddingham, a Pension Consultancy which highlights the vast differences in with-profits.

Tangible signs of progress in the relationship between the US and North Korea were enough to ease market nerves after some worrying but predictable geopolitical news earlier in the week.

This week Elon Musk's refusal to answer "boring" questions about Tesla's finances cost the company $2bn in market value.

The busiest week of earnings season has been an up-and-down, or rather a down-then-up, one for global equity markets.