Money Tips Daily By Charles Kelly, Former Ifa And Author Of Yes, Money Can Buy You Happiness.

The average British woman invest half the amount they spend on treats, such as clothes, beauty products, gym classes and eating out, says entrepreneur and former Apprentice contestant Jackie Fast. Writing for City Matters, Jackie said they spend £211 per month on day-today treats, but only £98 on saving and investing. Jackie did further research and found that women invest 40% less than men. Whilst there are reasons why woman cannot always invest as much as their male counterparts, such as career breaks and the gender pay gap, women need to up their game when it comes to money management. As a former financial advisor, I frequently saw women leave the all household finances, such as mortgages, pensions and savings, to their male partner or husband. This often led to disastrous consequences during times of divorce or widowhood. Women to take control of their own finances, separate from the family budget. Finance is still not widely taught in schools, so it does require some effort. See an independent financial

Parliament Torn Apart by Brexit - Johnson will table a motion for an October General Election. The government lost a key vote tonight which could delay Brexit 31 October and will have consequences on the UK for years to come. A general election is on the cards as Boris Johnson warns MP’s that if the government loses the vote tomorrow on the Bill to delay Brexit and outlaw a ‘no deal’ exit of the European Union. Other news: · M&S to drop out of FTSE100 Index. · Restaurant Group shares drop as it announces closures. · Manufacturing output down. · Pound falls again. · Gold price rises on uncertainty – up 35% in last 12 months. Word of the Day Cash ISA In the UK, investors can invest in a cash ISA and pay no tax interest, which is taxed in non-ISA deposit accounts. The annual tax-free ISA allowance is £20,000, with ome accounts also allowing you to transfer in money invested in the previous tax year so you can maximise returns on all your tax-free savings. There are more examples and practical steps to gettin

The pound has continued to fall on currency markets amid intensified political uncertainty over Brexit, the BBC reports today, although a couple of cents against the dollar is hardly a catastrophe. Rumours of a possible snap general election dragged sterling further down, as MPs pushed for a further three-month Brexit extension. Against the dollar, the British pound fell more than a cent to $1.2050, while against the euro, it fell below the €1.10 mark. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who last week said he will suspend parliament, has repeatedly insisted that the UK is ready to leave the EU without a deal, despite his own MP’s threatening to revolt against the government. Over the weekend, government whips were summoned to the Prime Minister’s Chequers residence where they were given orders to warn Tory MPs that they face deselection at the next election (which could be in a matter of weeks) if they rebel against the party line. Brexit, currently scheduled to happen on 31 October, is causing uncertainty business

Weekly News Round Up 010919 In this episode: Is China orchestrating Hong Kong riots in order to justify an invasion? Is China’s economy built on a house of cards? Why the HK rich are looking at Golden Visas, such as Cyprus, to protect their money. Also: Markets settle after a turbulent week. Recession Coming World Markets Tumble? Trump’s China tariffs kick-in as trade war threatens world’s economies with recession. 6 Trump Tweets wipes $500 billion off shares in one day Why is 12-hour-day-work proponent Jack Ma retiring and stepping down as CEO of Alibaba? Brexit saga heats up as Boris Johnson prorogues parliament causing British Pound to tumble. Fire Movement’s extreme saving, promising early retirement and way out of the rat race. How to use Power of Compound Interest to build wealth. 35 Year Mortgages Help First Time Buyers Word of the Day Markets In financial terms, a “market” is a market in which people invest and trade in financial securities and derivatives. Examples of securities shares, stocks and bo

When I was growing up, my mother was stingy by necessity and bought the cheapest food and clothes she could find. I was embarrassed by this, as in those days it was not cool to be frugal. Fast forward to the present and it has become fashionable and even cool to be stingy, frugal and penny pinching. Shops like Primark, money saving comparison sites and online stores like Amazon have all boomed in the last few years. In my book, Yes, money can buy happiness, and my Money Tips podcasts, I obviously promote saving and investment and earning more than you spend. However, a movement in America called F.I.R.E. takes stinginess to a whole new level. The seeds of the FIRE movement can be traced back to the 1992 best-selling book Your Money or Your Life written by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez, and the 2010 book Early Retirement Extreme by Jacob Lund Fisker. Followers of the F.I.R.E. or “financial independence” and “retire early”, movement, originating in the US, practice extreme forms of money saving to achieve their

End of a Turbulent Week It’s Friday and it has been a tumultuous week. Shares recovered from last week’s fall on hopes that the Trump-China trade dispute will be settled soon. Economies of China and India are slowing and property sectors look to be over geared. Could this cause another banking crisis? Boris Johnson prorogued Parliament causing a storm of protests with people taking to the streets and court cases started to block him. Two surveys come out this week which show that consumer confidence and business confidence are both falling. Consumer spending and borrowing are also down. The nationwide building society reports that property is barely growing at the moment. Economic signs are not looking good so it’s not the time to be taken on a huge risky commitment went in the shop in the High Street. On the other hand, office property in the city has been snapped up despite the doom and gloom around Brexit. If markets fall and we going to recession it will be a buyers market for businesses, property and sha

How many hours a week do you work? The outspoken Chinese billionaire, co-founder of the online giant Alibaba supports a 9am to 9pm working day, six days a week. While European countries moves towards shorter working hours – I’m not sure they can get much shorter in France - and more time off, Jack Ma calls for a "996 system", which he describes as an opportunity and a “blessing”. Mr Ma recently wrote that without this formula, China's economy was "very likely to lose vitality and impetus". Fellow superrich tech entrepreneur Richard Liu, the boss of ecommerce giant JD.com, supports Ma’s 12-hour-a-day system. Mr Liu said decades of unprecedented economic growth in China had created more "slackers". The two entrepreneurs do not appear to care much about their employees having a life outside of work, especially when you add up to two hours uncomfortable commuting time to his “996” formula, which probably ends up closer to 7-11-6. The communist state has seen economic growth averaging 10% for more than 25 years, f

British Pound down to $1.22 and E1.10 Shares up and down Reminder about PPI deadline – 2 days to go! Hong Kong crisis – Golden Visas What is a Golden Visa? In simple terms, it is a visa in return for money or investment into the host country. Applicants can secure permanent residency in Europe or Cyprus, a member of the European Union, through investment in real estate. The programme is one of the fastest and simplest investor visa programmes in Europe. It requires investment of just €300,000 into property to gain the Cyprus residency permit. The residency visa is granted within two monthsand covers the whole family. It includes parents of both the main applicant and spouse plus dependent children up to the age of 25. It is valid for life and can be passed down to dependents and spouse. The permanent residency programme offers ease of travel throughout the European Union and requires just one visit to Cyprus by all family members once every two years. The investment may be made by a company for which the main

What does BREXIT and leaving the EU on WTO terms actually mean for the UK? Listen to this jargon-busting episode. Word of the Day WTO The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. At its heart are the WTO agreements, negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world’s trading nations and ratified in their parliaments. The goal is to ensure that trade flows as smoothly, predictably and freely as possible. The WTO has over 160 members representing 98 per cent of world trade. Over 20 countries are seeking to join the WTO. Despite MPs voting against a no deal in March 2019, it still remains the legal default for Brexit until some kind of withdrawal agreement is passed by Parliament. A no deal Brexit would mean we leave the EU, as well as the single market and customs union, and begin trading with the EU on WTO terms. Under WTO rules, countries set their own import rules, so a no deal Brexit means that the government could, in theory,

Albert Einstein once said that compound interest was the most powerful force on earth. What is compound interest? In simple terms, compound interest is the effect of interest being earned, paid or on interest. If you had £100 in the bank earning 7% interest per annum at the end of the year you would have £107. In year two, you are earning 7% on £105, not £100. The Rule of 72 If you did not touch the interest or savings and the interest continued at 7% per annum how long would it be before your money doubled? The answer is just over 10 years. Look at it from another point of you, if you have a credit card debts rolling up at 20% per annum, how long would it be before your debt doubled in size? The answer is just over three years. However, let’s assume you are paying the minimum 2% off of your debt balance, and for the sake of this exercise we assume that effect is that you will be paying 18% on the debt. It would still only take four years before your debt has doubled in size. Furthermore, just paying the mini

Weekly News Roundup 260819 Word of the Day ETF An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is a fund of securities—such as stocks—that tracks an underlying index, for instance, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY), which tracks the S&P 500 Index. ETFs can also contain many types of investments, including stocks, commodities - such as Gold and Silver - bonds, or a mixture of investment types. An exchange-traded fund is a marketable security meaning it has an associated price that allows it to be traded or bought and sold. There are more examples and practical steps to getting rich and being happy in my book, Yes, money can buy happiness, I cover the 3 R’s of Money Management, the Money B.E.L.I.E.F System and much more. Check it out on Amazon http://bit.ly/2MoneyBook.

6 Trump tweets wipe $500 billion off U.S. stocks in one day - $83 billion a tweet! The stock market lost over $300 billion in value in 15 minutes due to six tweets from President Trump. He even joked about the Dow being down later in the day as investors lost over $500 billion on Friday. The Dow Jones closed 623 points down on Friday following the Trump tweets calling Fed the “enemy” and imposing new tariffs on Chinese imports from September. Forbes reported that in the course of 2 minutes on Friday President Trump unleashed 6 tweets about Fed Chairman Powell’s speech at the central bank’s Jackson Hole annual economic policy symposium and China announcing that it would impose 5% to 10% tariffs on $75 billion of U.S. exports to China. The stock market reacted immediately and intensely negatively to Trump’s first set of tweets sending the Dow Jones 30 Industrials down about 400 points in 15 minutes and 500 points within an hour. While the Dow and other indexes were essentially flat to up a bit during and after

Universal credit is responsible for tenants on benefits falling behind with rent, according to the Residential Landlords Association (RLA). The RLA said 54% of landlords had reported tenants on the benefits go into arrears in the last year. The BBC reports that Debt charity Turn2Us warned universal credit will lead to "more rent arrears, more evictions and more homelessness". The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said landlords had reported seeing fewer claimants in arrears in the last year. David Smith, policy director for the Residential Landlords Association (RLA), said it was taking too long for people struggling on universal credit to get the help they needed. "The system only provides extra support once tenants are in rent arrears. Instead, more should be done to prevent tenants falling behind with their rent in the first place. "Only then will landlords have the confidence they need that tenants being on universal credit does not pose a financial risk they are unable to shoulder." Tenants have als

You must keep on top of your finances and life in general otherwise the weeds will take the garden, as Jim Rohn used to say. When does it end? When can you relax? Never. Word of the Day Tenure In property terms, it’s the conditions under which land or buildings are held or occupied. Examples of tenure in the UK include, Freehold or Leasehold. There are more examples and practical steps to getting rich, staying rich and being happy in my book, Yes, money can buy happiness, I cover the 3 R’s of Money Management, the Money B.E.L.I.E.F System and much more. Check it out on Amazon http://bit.ly/2MoneyBook.

UK has enjoyed a boom in new tech investments from overseas and has attracted £5 billion in the first seven months of this year, the BBC reports today. Word of the Day IPO – Initial Public Offering  or stock market launch is a type of public offering in which shares in a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also retail (individual) investors - raising investment using OPM.  The IPO is underwritten by one or more investment banks, which arrange for the shares to be listed on one or more stock markets, such as the London Stock Exchange or on one of the Wall Street markets. There are more examples and practical steps to getting rich and being happy in my book, Yes, money can buy happiness, I cover the 3 R’s of Money Management, the Money B.E.L.I.E.F System and much more. Check it out on Amazon http://bit.ly/2MoneyBook.

 Kylie Jenner – The Entrepreneur who is defying the odds A 20-year-old near-billionaire who does not have a college degree is in the process of dismantling decades worth of bunk economic theories crafted by those long on degrees, but short on common sense. Entrepreneur Kylie Jenner started Kylie Cosmetics in 2016 ago with one product - a $29 lip kit. Forbes reported in 2018, that she “had sold more than $630 million worth of makeup since.”  Jenner owns 100 percent of a company that Forbes estimates is worth more than $800 million. Jenner is on track to become the youngest self-made billionaire ever. Kylie Jenner the Modern Entrepreneur Even more remarkable is how Jenner built the billion-dollar business without a large company or major investors and minimal setup costs, staff or infrastructure. She owns 100 percent of her business. Start-up costs were low and she employs just seven full-time and five part-time staff. All the manufacturing and packaging, along with sales and fulfilment, are outsource

Chancellor Sajid Javid ends speculation that he will make sellers pay Stamp Duty, instead of buyers. Thank goodness for common sense, as the plan was fraught with difficulty.. Stock Markets settle. Invest in yourself and your education. Word of the Day Dividend or Divi. When you own a share in a business, the board of directors of the company can declare a dividend, or share of the profits, to the shareholders who are the owners of the company.  If you invest in shares, you can benefit from capital growth (assuming you have done your research, invested in a good company and the share price rises over time) and income from annual dividends, typically 3-5% of the value of the share. Learn how to invest, and always take independent financial advice. There are more examples and practical steps to getting rich and being happy in my book, Yes, money can buy happiness, I cover the 3 R’s of Money Management, the Money B.E.L.I.E.F System and much more. Check it out on Amazon http://bit.ly/2MoneyBook.

What should investors do when the stock market is at an all time high and recession looms? Fund Managers tell Investors to “stay calm” and stay invested in the market. On Wednesday 14 August 2019, the US stock marker suffered its biggest one day fall since October and the Dow Jones had its sixth worst day in history. Markets recovered by the end of the week when President Trump deferred a tariff increase on Chinese imports. As markets reel and recession appears to be around the corner, The Times interviewed leading experts and economists working for fund managers or insurance companies. These are the people who control billions of pounds worth of investments on behalf of millions of savers and investors in pooled managed funds, from pension funds to unit trusts (mutual funds). Not one expert recommended getting out of the market, even though some admitted that the price of shares could fall. Helena Morrisey of Legal and General advised investors to “stay calm”, which is always easier when it’s not your money

A lot of people say, “you need money to make money”, which is not strictly true. Yes, some projects do require investment, but I’ve started many businesses with no money and just my efforts. TV money expert Martin Lewis started his Money Saving Expert website for £200 and sold it for millions and describes it has his greatest ever investment. I would say the same about my business investments where my ROI has been infinite. Assuming you do need money for a project, does it need to be your own money? Of course not! People have bought and sold businesses, properties and funded projects, expeditions, corporate takeovers for centuries using Other People’s Money (OPM).  7 ‘no money down’ property strategies 1. JV – joint venture with someone who has cash to invest but not the time. 2. Rent to Rent – control property and rent out for a profit. 3. Refinance – draw off equity by remortgaging your, or someone else’s, property. 4. Crowdfunding – sourcing funds from groups of investors. 5. Lease Options – buy now,

What is debt? The English term "debt" was first used in the late 13th century and derives from "dette, from Old French dete, from Latin debitum "thing owed".  To the borrower, a debt is seen as a liability. To a creditor, a debt is an asset on their balance sheet. Change your mindset and use debt as an asset and leverage to acquire assets.  There are more examples and practical steps to getting rich and being happy in my book, Yes, money can buy happiness, I cover the 3 R’s of Money Management, the Money B.E.L.I.E.F System and much more. Check it out on Amazon http://bit.ly/2MoneyBook.