remain independant for as long as possible.
Assisted Living in Thailand. Chiang Mai has many elderly retirees because of the fun, caring and pleasant enviroment. It is so easy to get help with everything from cleaning and laundry to shopping and day trips.
It costs so little compared to the West that you can afford to hire a personal assistant or nurse. Personal assistants are popular because you have the added advantage of companionship as well as daily care. This means that you can put of D Day until the very last moment. Assisted Living in Thailand is possibly the best way of preserving and extending your financial ‘nest-egg’.
End of life is not a topic that we like to think about, but eventually has to be faced. Thailand has some excellent facilities that help you keep your dignity and quality of life for a fraction of the cost compared to the West.
Emerging markets offer many attractive firms that offer growth regardless of conditions in their domestic economies, say New York asset managers Jennison Associates.
The way governments have acted to deal with the pandemic has come as a shock to all of us. A big shock. They have thrown money at the problem on a scale rightly compared with that of fighting a world war, abandoned any pretence of thrift in public affairs, and ordered about their citizens like schoolchildren. With hardly any opposition.
Value stocks “have had a decade from hell” says The Economist. Over that period their returns have lagged behind the average for the American stockmarket as a whole by more than 90 percentage points.
Prices of commodities are surging despite the fact that economies, many of them still in the grip of lockdowns, are still far from full recovery from the pandemic.
Those of us who have been around long enough know something about booms and busts (I was lucky enough to choose to exit the dotcom mania on the day the market peaked). So, is this the right time to flee the share markets? Not yet. I agree with Eoin Treacy that although “there is clear evidence a mania is evolving… there is no evidence it has reached its peak.”
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