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Confessions of an Impulsive Investor: My magpie Isa of trusts and ETFs is up 20%

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My father used to ‘play the stock market’.  He folded the profits from his small business in the 1970s into company shares, some of which came as recommendations from his stockbroker, over the bakelite telephone with a twisted brown cord. He added to this substantially with the big privatisations of the 1980s, and left a … Read more

Who is the most impulsive and reckless spender in your family?

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Siblings have no trouble finding differences to bicker about, and spending habits are as likely as anything to cause familial ructions. But children in large families are likely to display very different attitudes towards money, research suggests. The middle child in a family is often the biggest spender compared to siblings, a study from peer-to-peer … Read more