Lesson learned. Or not. You can decide.

I didn’t expect the volatility to start less than 24 hours later.

Family update, investment scribblings, and the usual good news to end on.

Risk comes in many shapes and sizes.

The only and only Jack Bogle.

It wasn’t even close.

Sound the alarm.

*Bad joke incoming.

And the introduction of the catchily-named Optimism Prism. Positivity served.

Earn less to be paid more. It sounds like a PPI reclaim advert, but read on.

“That’s quite enough, thank you”

On both counts.

This story is my favourite story of my career.

A short story I don’t like telling about insurance, with a longer story about football in the middle.

Shared with permission. Sandra’s story and her progress through the loss of her husband.