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This is part one of a review of balanced mutual funds available in Bermuda. Last week’s Moneywise column focused on that week’s volatility in capital markets, particularly in the United States where the daily swings to gains and losses were anywhere...

“A good forecaster is not smarter than everyone else, he merely has his ignorance better organised.” — Anonymous In January of last year I laid out 12 unexpected events or surprise situations that were, at the time, outside of the conventional consen...

You may have seen the highly acclaimed television show “House”, which is based on a fictional Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. Dr Gregory House tackles potentially terminal health mysteries as would a medical Sherlock Holmes. His...

Scammers and those being scammed, part two “At the bottom of Multi-Level Marketing — a scummy business at best — lurks Global Prosperity. The slimy-est of the slimy MLM programmes, none is more of a scam, or has such a disreputable background, as Gl...

I was filing away old copies of these columns last night when Chloe’s eyes landed on last year’s Elf on the Shelf debate. Across the room I watched her pull the illustrated pages out of the pile and sit down to read them. I propelled myself across t...

Bermuda Financial Fundamentals Series — Investing: Mutual Funds and Portfolios. (Continuing the Bermuda Financial Fundamental Series on mutual funds and portfolios — Part 3) The three most frequently asked questions conveyed to me over the years b...

How is Bermuda doing this morning? Today, Moneywise keeping things light, given that so many have spent time, money, physical and mental energy cleaning up after two hurricanes back to back. Readers often ask me where do I get my ideas. How can I po...

Are we ever prepared for the worst? Last week, Thursday September 11, 2014, marked the 13th year since the assault on the US World Trade Center by terrorists using plane-filled human targets as attack weapons. Let us remember that day each and every...