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A reader asks: “Is it possible to get a 10 per cent return in a balanced fund [see last week’s article] in this environment? I once read that using the Rule of 72, with a 10 per cent return, my retirement portfolio would double in value in a little o...

• If you’re looking for something to do on date night, or want to get a group of ladies together for a fun and creative evening, then you may be interested in Art with a Twist on Tuesday, June 7 and 21. From 6.30pm until 9pm at Masterworks, you can c...

Here are two questions that we will cover today. “I’m relatively conservative and have stuck to the balanced fund concept for the last ten years. Balanced fund meaning 60 per cent stocks / 40 per cent bonds. I don’t have the expertise or the time to...

This is part five of the New Bermuda Retirement series WHAT IS YOUR TIMELINE? There are three serious phases in retirement planning: 1. Fifteen to five years away from the accepted community retirement age (this varies by employer, government man...

On the eve of Mothering Sunday here is a look at, and a celebration of, what motherhood means today and in the past, beginning with the poignant discovery of a 4,800-year-old fossilised mother and child found by archeologists in Taiwan last month. ...

• Presented by visiting scientist Jim Wetterer, associate professor at Florida Atlantic University, Them! World Domination by Ants will take place on Wednesday, May 10. Jim’s research interest is the biogeography, ecology, and environmental impact of...

Bravo! The Premier of Bermuda last Thursday sent an aggressive, masterly detailed, but polite letter to Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the British Labour Party, defending Bermuda’s international reputation. After years of infuriating off-handed jabs ...

This the third part in the New Retirement series. Should you pay off your mortgage before you retire? This is probably the most common question posed to me (along with “will we run out of money”) in the many years of my retirement counselling profess...

The latest data dump leaks, the largest in history, were released this week by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. The Panama Papers, so called as the leaks came from a Panamanian law firm, implicated 140 very high-level polit...

Ps, Mr Editor, is an unusual way to begin a column. Postscripts are usually found at the end. But I want to begin this week with a follow-up to last week’s column. Consultation does have its sceptics, critics and detractors — and I want to address so...