In January of last year I laid out 13 unexpected events or surprise situations that were currently outside of the conventional consensus opinion that I felt had a reasonable chance of occurring (http:...
This is the final instalment of the three-part series on retirement planning and investing.
“Retirement at 65 is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.” - George Burns
Retirement pla...
This is the second part of a three-part series on retirement planning.
“Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.”
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Life in retirement should be fun...
This is part one of a three-part series on retirement planning and investing for retirement that will be delivered over the next couple of weeks.
“It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to l...
The S&P 500 is having its best year since 2003 with gains of over 26 percent year to date. Small cap stocks are soaring even further — up some 30 percent and the Dow Jones Industrial Average has been ...
Bermuda’s national health care issues are indeed numerous (eg, access, pricing, coverage, funding etc) and one of the Island’s biggest fiscal drains. Rapidly rising healthcare costs undermine the all-...
Recently Bermuda’s Department of Statistics (DoS) released its fourth annual Environmental Statistics Compendium which claims Bermuda’s population has increased over the past two years.
In our latest...
The Chartered Financial Analyst Society of Bermuda recently hosted the Global Interdependence Conference in Bermuda on October 10 and 11. It was a fantastic forum with some world-class speakers. What ...
“The one thing I will tell you is the worst investment you can have is cash. Everybody is talking about cash being king and all that sort of thing. Cash is going to become worth less over time. But go...
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the people discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority...
