Investing

In today’s high tech connected world, it’s now easier than ever to invest. The digital revolution of the past 20 years allows the intrepid individual to take risks in the stock market with the potential for a big payout. The point of this guide is to give some basic knowledge and tips to newbie investors without all the technical Wall Street jargon that makes the stock market seem…

What is Impact Investing? The main idea of impact investing can be described in one phrase: “socially responsible investing”. The goal of impact investing is to reduce the negative social effects of corporate activity by promoting businesses that benefit their communities and utilize clean technologies. Impact investing is a way to mitigate and discourage…

Hipsters, Whipsters & neo-mainstreamers. Let’s talk money. I’ll do my best to refrain from dwelling on the cards we have been dealt as Millennials. To all intent and purposes, I am probably a mainstreamer. Sure, the occasional lurch to the left as a whipster, I’m often back in line one day later. Just like every ‘generation’ we like to work hard to work out how we have been…

In the span of years following the financial crisis that blew up economies worldwide in 2008, you couldn’t turn on the TV or look at a newspaper without encountering this seemingly new, misunderstood, and ‘apparently’ fundamentally evil concept: financial derivatives. Indeed, if you were paying attention in those dark days when the worst economic meltdown since the Great…