
Finance
I have always been interested in money and finance. You might be thinking, ‘So what? So, is everybody else’, but I don’t mean it like that.
I have never been rich in monetary terms, and I am not interested in collecting money in my bank account just for the sake of it. I am not greedy, but I am aware that we all need money, don’t want much out of life and hate shopping.
No, what I mean is that I am fascinated by how money is, and can be, generated, and how it is, or could be. used.
I have had savings plans, both long and short term, producing tax-free and taxable lump sums and incomes; I have had three houses at one time, all mortgaged; I have owned businesses outright and been a director with others. I have collected stamps and coins, and I was the youngest person ever to be granted the right to collect modern gold coins in the UK, back in the days when it was highly regulated.
I have played the stock market and Forex and pursued umpteen other methods, obscure and not so, too.
However, despite fifty years of doing all that, I am not qualified to give financial advice in the UK, and probably not in the EU or the Americas either. That’s OK though, I can live with that. What they can’t stop me from doing though, I think, is pointing you in the direction of something that I find interesting, so that you will be aware of it, and be in a position to discover more about it for yourself, if you find the topic of interest.
So, under those provisos, please enter my world of finance and look around.
(Tip: You will find that I am particularly interested in fee-free financial advice and cryptocurrencies at the moment, as I think that they are going to shake the financial sector just as desktop publishing did to the traditional publishing industry).
All the best,
Owen.
You must be logged in to post a comment.