Worldwide Financial Planning

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.

It's quite disturbing to find out that 8.5 million breadwinners in the UK have no life insurance at all. The Association of British Insurers calculates that households are £263 billion underinsured potentially leaving dependents to deal with extraordinary hardship on top of the pain and despair of losing someone they love. That's a big gap.

Central bankers are splitting into two camps, the inflation is real and it's time to start hiking side vs. the inflation is temporary and the economy still needs to be on low rate life support side.

The latest figures put the latter in the ascendency.