Worldwide Financial Planning

Although this has been a particularly awful week, Thursday's attack in Spain, of which the full details are still unknown as we're writing this, isn't the only outrage to hit the headlines.

At the start of the week another person was killed in similar fashion when a car rammed anti-fascist protesters at a Nazi rally in Virginia.

Undoubtedly, a war with North Korea would have a catastrophic effect on markets. This is a country that independent experts claim have 30 nuclear weapons. (The U.S. states 60). A nuclear power, North Korea definitely is for sure, and the use of nuclear weapons would relegate worrying about the value of your pensions to a secondary concern.

The FTSE 100 is often thought as a bellwether for the UK economy, when it is not. Most of the earning from the FTSE 100 come from overseas so its pretty meaningless. The FTSE All-Share is more reflective but doesn't hit the news as much.

The Dow Jones however, is a chocolate watch. More fake news.

Inflation has already started to tick down while a handful of economic indicators also appear to be slowing.

Currently there are 14.2m pension investors in the UK and countless millions of ISA investors who may be receiving a raw deal, and their apathy costing their future financial security millions.

Take M&G who have one fund that charges £93,000 a day in fees. (One of many funds they have).

With the Prime Minister walking through the Alps, we've had to settle for second rate drama from some of the governments bit part players.

This weeks's episode was about someone called Liam Fox and chickens.