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The Moneywise Pretend Portfolio yearlong series has been updated to reflect stock and bond prices at original issue and as at end of January. The portfolio is not yet complete as each month in the year-long programme, but please take the time to see...

I have loved hot chocolate ever since I was little — preferably covered in whipped cream and marshmallows. I was definitely sugar-addicted, but there was a comfort element too. A cup of something warm and sweet when you’re growing up in the drizzly ...

After watching the funeral of the late MP Walton Brown Jr, I am mindful of an old comment put on fallen soldiers’ graves: “Let my death have more meaning than my life”. I listened carefully to all the commentaries, and, indeed, they inspired hope of ...

I think of myself as a Democrat, but not strictly because I also believe in the liberty of the individual. As an example, I believe when a person represents others, they should do so with the best that they can personally offer, and not merely as a v...

In last week’s article I alluded to the fact that a measurable number of Bermuda residents are opting to retire overseas, so it seems only appropriate that I follow this with a few thoughts regarding this subject. I will say up front that I am not a...

This is the second in a new, possibly monthly, series on the millennial trend to becoming financially independent, retire early (FIRE!). We first covered this phenomenon on July 27. FIRE! is a very real financial movement in its lifestyle changing a...

Surprise! Fire — short for Financial Independence, Retire Early, is not about us anxious-about-retiring oldsters. Nor is Fire about Fireworks, but a new millennial finance movement, generating a heightened global surge of interest (and dedicated fol...

Bermuda has been held accountable to meet yet another economic compliance hurdle. We’ve been in these scrutinised headlines before. We’ve heard it all before — from country friends and economic foes alike. Frustratingly, from our sophisticated regul...

Country above self is the motto of the twin-island federation of St Kitts & Nevis. A motto that is, evidently, not just words, but a daily way of life. This ancestral Caribbean homeland of an extremely large proportion of Bermudians was the first st...

So Bermuda is blacklisted with the European Union and the hopes are to get off the list as soon as possible to avoid future losses in business and real damage to the economy. The perception of Bermuda as a tax haven, in spite of everything the Govern...