What could be the key to making you more productive? How do you become more creative and more able to engage in problem solving? The answer, according to Shaun Anchor, is to learn how to engage regularly in positive psychology. This might sound “fluffy” but consider...
What if it was possible to generate strong investment returns, but also do so with a social conscience and environmentalist mindset? According to Chris McKnett, this can absolutely be done and his compelling Ted Talk here outlines his reasons for thinking so. He talks about...
Al Gore is well-known for his outspoken views on climate change, and his Ted Talk “What Comes After An Inconvenient Truth?” is now over ten years old. Yet the seriousness of the subject matter is as timely as ever in 2020. With impressive efficiency, Al Gore...
David finds that spending time getting to know what is important to his clients helps to provide reassurance when funds take a dip in value. In the difficult market conditions of 2008/09, a lot of clients ‘bailed out’ of the market. To do this was not...
A very amusing and insightful talk where Anne Lamott shares her best tips on how to view yourself, life, families and God. “There are cracks in everything, that’s how the light gets in” is my favourite quote from her talk. Anne believes we are all doomed and...
In this video, we see David Butler describe a scenario where his broker encourages him to buy shares on the basis that the share value should increase. This type of broker discretionary relationship has not always been successful for the client; if the predicted...
What is the most transformative thing that you can do for your brain today? Exercise! says neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki! Dr. Wendy A. Suzuki is a Professor of Neural Science and Psychology at the Centre for Neural Science, New York University. She is best known for her...
‘The internet gave us access to everything. But it also gave everything access to us,’ says James Vietch, a writer and comedian who turned his frustration into whimsy when a local supermarket refused to take no for an answer and high jinks ensued. What the moral...
I always like a personal challenge and since I am in France in August, I thought it would be a good idea to try to cycle up Mont Ventoux on Saturday 17th August 2019 at 6am in the morning. I must be mad, but it's...
Here's an intriguing statistic: In the developed world, women live an average of six to eight years longer than men do. Six to eight years longer! There is however one place in the world where men live as long as women. It's a...