January 2017 Investment Review

2016!

As the individual responsible for the safety of our life savings, I can’t say I enjoyed every minute of last year. It was tough right from the get-go. The Daily Express reported the early January FTSE 100 falls as “Worst stock market start of the CENTURY”. Experience told me it mean’t nothing and we ignored their advice to panic right now. We all knew “Past performance isn’t necessarily a guide to the future”.

The year ended with President Elect Donald Trump.

And yet, the perennial gauge of how investments are doing generally, the FTSE 100, ended the year at almost all time highs! Continue reading “January 2017 Investment Review”