Financial Expert – A New Chapter
It’s Simon here, so I’ve decided to officially launch a new website: Financial Expert
Financial Expert contains all the financial topics that I’ve been bursting to blog about for years, but couldn’t really find an excuse to link in with leadership or management on my other blogs. Truth is, I’m a finance fanatic, and I love keeping my ear close to the markets, whether it’s keeping up with the financial pages, or managing my own investment portfolio.
As I was Googling around the Internet in the early days, there was a significant lack of easily accessible information for new or amateur investors to get me up to speed on various funds, shares and strategies etc. For instance, when I wanted to look into what funds specialise in Oil indexes, I struggled to ever find information that was relevant. Things are certainly better now, as the supply from websites has finally caught up with demand, but I still believe there’s a sizeable gap that good targeted blogging can squeeze into!
Financial Expert solves some of these problems in part. Some of the pages will contain updated ‘list information’, whereby I list all the funds I can find for a given sector. To do this, I’ve compiled the data gathered from many searches and different sources to hopefully provide a comprehensive list of funds to kick start your own research.
Financial Expert will also offer ‘Guides’ to the different areas of investing. For instance, I’ve started off with a guide to private investment in commodities, entitled ‘How to Invest in Commodities‘, which will offer a menu of investment options and show just how many routes there are to gaining exposure to this volatile and mysterious market. Commodities are great example of how great amounts of money are being made by financial professionals, but not by your average Joe with a savings account and a ‘bunch of shares’.
I firmly believe that financial independence is one of the greatest achievements in life, and that successful and dedicated investing offers a sustainable method of reaching that target without needing to win the lottery or become a CEO. Indeed, you can retire within 10 years if you start on the right foot and put your mind to it: Read about how early retirement is possible here.
So indeed the website will have an investment focus, and an aspiration edge, but I’ll also cut into some of the classic personal finance such as borrowing, credit cards and savings accounts. Stocks and Shares may form the more exciting parts of ones portfolio, but they’re not appropriate for everyone, and savings accounts & NS&I bonds have their place.