Looks like enforced leisure and additional screen time, reduced spending and a see-sawing stockmarket made many have a go at buying shares and investment funds online. The same effect brought us many new clients, who’d at last had time to think about their finances and future (or potential lack of). I can guarantee, however, that life will take over again, and few of those DIY-ers will have the time or maintain their interest. And in a few years, they’ll have forgotten their access codes and realise they’re in dud funds. All good for us, I guess.
“Global stock markets fall sharply amid fears over inflation and China slowdown”
Diesel at my local filling station now costs over £7.50 a gallon (kids etc.). Not my problem these days, but I’m sadly old enough to remember the furore in the 1970s when the price went up to 50p a gallon.
