#finance (44 links)
- How much happiness does money buy? economist.com
Armed with little more than the principles behind them and some maths that has been solved for half a century, you can build an entire theory of how to invest your hard-earned savings. It tells you how much you should risk on the stockmarket, how much you should keep safe and what you can spend in retirement. It requires just a few facts about financial markets and some of the simplest, cheapest investment funds that asset managers offer. What is more, it was first formulated by a Nobel-prizewinning economist and is today almost universally accepted by his successors as the “correct” approach to investment and spending. Yet outside academia, almost no one has heard of it.
- Runway Financial runway.com
the modern and intuitive way to model, plan, and align your business for everyone on your team.
- Pleo Review 2023 - Business Expert businessexpert.co.uk
Founded in 2015, Pleo is a fintech platform that provides businesses with expense solutions and automated financial management tools. Their goal is to centralise every accounting or expense-related work into a unique, simple platform.
- Banking in very uncertain times bitsaboutmoney.com
- Swoop Funding | Business funding & savings swoopfunding.com
- Karl's Mortgage Calculator drcalculator.com
- nimbl nimbl.com
- Locoblades Mortgage Spreadsheet locostfireblade.co.uk
- Robert Shiller': Home Investment A Fad - Business Insider businessinsider.com
- HSBC to Pay $1.92 Billion to Settle Charges of Money Laundering - NYTimes.com dealbook.nytimes.com
- End of the line for commission | Money | The Guardian guardian.co.uk
- The Richest Man in Babylon (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.m.wikipedia.org
- New Statesman - The tax haven in the heart of Britain newstatesman.com
One of the biggest, most silent players behind so much offshore activity has been identified: a Teflon-like, medieval institution, wrapped around the neck of Britain and dedicated to keeping finance strong and free.
- A slow savings account ( 4 Apr., 2012, at Interconnected) interconnected.org
"A slow savings account would work exactly like a regular account -- I could pay money into it, and transfer money out. The difference would be: when I pay money in to a slow savings account, it appears in the available balance exactly one year later." I want one of these.
- The most effective debt collecting email I ever wrote | For A Beautiful Web forabeautifulweb.com
I like this. "A quick note to say that I am really disappointed that you have still not paid me the [..] that I'm owed for the work I did for you. In the grand scheme of things, it's not a lot of money, but actually I think that this is more a matter of respect."
- Think Vitamin » How to Track Six Key Metrics for Your Web App thinkvitamin.com
The way we do this is by having a 1-hour meeting every Tuesday morning where my manager presents a PDF report that outlines these figures and colours the report either Red (we're in trouble and we better do something about it), Yellow (We're in danger, but it's fixable) or Green (we're on track to achieve our goals).
- Pension MoneySaving: Buy a different way to boost returns... moneysavingexpert.com
- How To Raise Your Rates Without Losing Clients - FreelanceSwitch - The Freelance Blog freelanceswitch.com
If the fear of losing clients is holding you back from raising your rates, here are some pointers to help you broach the thorny subject of asking for more…
- Wesabe wesabe.com
Makes it easy to better understand how you spend your money and links you to a community of people dedicated to helping each other make better financial decisions.
- Payroll Giving Grants payrollgivinggrants.org.uk
A scheme that rewards smaller and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that set up Payroll Giving with grants of up to £500.
- Abbey - The word on your street thewordonyourstreet.com
Useful tips from PG.
- Late Payment Calculator - Great to get payments - MoneySavingExpert.com Forums forums.moneysavingexpert.com
Many self-employed/freelancers/small businesses face the same problem. You've done the work - yet your corporate clients haven't paid on time. Yet you have a legal right to charge interest if companies don't pay you.
- annualcreditreport.co.uk – a free credit report every year, no credit card details required annualcreditreport.co.uk
Online credit reports and free credit file monitoring
- Guardian Unlimited Money | Cash clinic | Getting a foot on that property ladder money.guardian.co.uk
There are plenty of schemes around now for first-time buyers - including some that allow parents to help their offspring.
- Guardian Unlimited Money | Cash clinic | What first-time buyers are really being sold money.guardian.co.uk
This week the government pressed home its message that it wanted to assist would-be property buyers. Rupert Jones looks at the plans in detail and asks how many will be helped
- Guardian Unlimited Money | Cash clinic | First-time buyers money.guardian.co.uk
- A Few Tips On Estimating Web Projects dkeithrobinson.com