Worldwide Financial Planning

This week has been dominated by politics.

While we should have more to say about the week's events, a crushing defeat for the government on Brexit and scraping survival in a no confidence vote, hasn't really changed anything.

One of the targets on our New Year’s resolutions columns was the leaking of money from your bank accounts. Why work so hard at filling your wage packet when the money is blowing out the window?

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.